A Calling

Empire State Building

"It's kind of a calling, right? New York."
Tess (Ella Purnell), Sweetbitter

Forgetting

"Does anyone come to New York clean? I'm afraid not. But crossing the Hudson I thought of crossing Lethe, milky river of forgetting."
Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

New York Asleep

"The city does sleep, the windows darken and the streets vacate. New York dreams us. Wild, somnambulistic creatures, we move unhurried toward our own disappearance at dawn."
Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

Mourning New York

Alphabet City

"We always just miss New York. I watched it with this neighborhood. When I moved here everyone was mourning the SoHo of the seventies, Tribeca of the eighties, and already ringing the death knell for the East Village. Now people romanticize the Alphabet City of Jonathan Larson. We all walk in a cloud of mourning for the New York that just disappeared."
Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter