About this item

“Gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be a New Yorker—slightly insane, broke, and madly in love. These essays made me laugh out loud with recognition. New York City isn’t an easy place to live, but is anything easy really worth doing?” —Emma Straub, author of The VacationersThe follow-up to the award-winning anthology Goodbye to All That, Never Can Say Goodbye is an exuberant celebration of New York, featuring contributions from luminaries such as Elizabeth Gilbert, Susan Orlean, Rosanne Cash, Nick Flynn, Whoopi Goldberg, Phillip Lopate, Owen King, Amy Sohn, Alexander Chee, and many others. These essays take place in dive bars and museums, cinemas and old restaurants, horse-drawn carriages and subway cars, capturing the true essence of life in New York.



About the Author

Sari Botton

Sari Botton is a writer, editor, and teacher living in Kingston, NY. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and many other publications. She edited the award-winning anthology "Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving & Leaving NY" and its New York Times bestselling follow-up, "Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for NY" and for five years served as Essays Editor at Longreads. She teaches creative nonfiction courses at Catapult and in the MFA program at Bay Path University.



Read Next Recommendation

Report incorrect product information.