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Article: One man's New York: funny, ugly, fascinating; New Yorker contributor Ian Frazier offers a penetrating, writerly look at the city.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)(Book Review)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- November 8, 2005
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Byline: Marjorie Kehe
It's hard not to be at least somewhat curious about a man who grew up in Ohio, moved to Manhattan, then to Brooklyn, eventually took off for Montana, and finally settled in New Jersey.
Who is this vagabond, and has he no sense of geography?
On the contrary, he's Ian Frazier - longtime New Yorker magazine writer - and he is steeped in geography. In fact, a sense of place is what Gone to New York: Adventures in the City - this pleasing, humorous, but also keenly trenchant collection of his writing - is all about.
Perhaps it was his idyllic childhood in Hudson, Ohio, that turned Frazier into a bemused outsider ...