Insomniac city New York, Oliver Sacks, and me
Bill Hayes came to New York City in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Francisco, he craved change. Grieving over the death of his partner, he quickly discovered the profound consolations of the city...
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New York,
Bloomsbury,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Insomniac city. Insomniac city
- Sleep : loss
- Black crow
- O and I
- On becoming a New Yorker
- Subway lifer
- The summer Michael Jackson died
- A fisherman on the subway
- A poem written on the stars
- The moving man
- For the skateboarders
- pt. II. On being not dead. The thank-you man
- The same taxi twice
- The weeping man
- On being not dead
- On a typewriter
- At the skateboard park
- A woman who knew her way
- Driving a supermodel
- Lessons from the smoke shop
- A year in trees
- On father's day
- pt. III. How New York breaks your heart. My afternoon with Ilona
- His name if Raheem
- A Monet of one's own
- But
- Everything that I don't have
- A pencil sharpener
- Home
- Postscript.
