Recently I picked up a book called New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of The New York Times. I've been reading essays here and there and really like it so far. One of my favorites is a piece titled "Everyone Knows This Is Somewhere, Part I" by Glyn Maxwell.
Here's an excerpt:
"And to walk the blocks of New York is to experience a warm anonymity. I've lived in the kingdom of the smirk and the chuckle, I've passed through the town of the sneer and the village of the snarl - we all have - but I'm at home now in the city of the shrug. It's not the shrug of not caring, but the shrug of having cared, the shrug of acceptance that so many have come, so many have suffered, so much has happened."
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