Showing posts with label Chang-rae Lee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chang-rae Lee. Show all posts

Friday, June 29, 2018

Dangerous New York



"The city of course, seemed too dangerous. Especially during the summer, the streets so dog mad with heat, untempered, literally steaming with possibilities, none of them good. People got meaner, stuck beneath all that hard light and stone. They worked through it by talking, speaking, shouting, and screaming, in every language on earth."
Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker

Friday, June 30, 2017

Cursing

SoHo


"The cursing: in New York City, summer is the season of bad language. It shouts at you from propped-up windows, it hangs on gold chains out of cars, it lingers at phone booths, peep booths, in every standing line for movies and museums and methadone."
Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker