Strangeness

Soho

"Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself."

Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone

City of the Mind

Columbia University

"For the rest of the country New York is now largely a city of the mind — at best, a site for the voodoo transformation of image into flesh."
Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone