Searching For Soul

On Thursday, June 28, from 6:30pm – 8:30pm, I'll hold upwardly at the Museum of the City of New York talking amongst author Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, cartoonist Julia Wertz, together with New Yorker staff author Vinson Cunningham nigh what it way to capture the “soul” of the city, fifty-fifty equally many longtime New Yorkers inquiry its survival.

Get your tickets together with to a greater extent than information here. Use the code SOUL1 for a discount.



In other news, my mass Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul volition hold upwardly out inward paperback July 24. You tin pre-order it straight off from whatsoever bookshop.



From the reviews:

“Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, together with inexpensive pierogi.” —Vanity Fair

“A full-throated lament for the city’s bygone charms.”—Wall Street Journal

“A cri de coeur that is essential reading for anyone who loves this city.” --The Village Voice

“The pleasance of reading Moss is his purity.” –The New York Times Book Review

“A remarkable atlas charting where New York has gone, together with why.” –The New Republic

“Passionate, sprawling.” --Slate

"Moss, a cantankerous defender of the metropolis he loves, chronicles its disconcerting metamorphosis from cosmopolitan melting pot to bland corporate lounge amongst passion together with vigor; New York is lucky to convey him on its side." – NewYorker.com

"a vigorous, righteously indignant mass that would create Jane Jacobs proud." --Kirkus

“This is a real good, angrily passionate, together with ultimately saddening book.... a brilliantly written together with well-informed account.” –Booklist

“Every page is charged amongst Moss’s deep dear of New York. It is both a vital together with unequivocally depressing read.” – Village Voice

“an impassioned locomote of advocacy on behalf of a metropolis that’s slipping away…a brawny book…a full-throated declaration for New York City equally a item form of place, together with for a for certain form of life lived inside it.” –Guernica

“a compelling together with oft necessary read.... One of the bang-up accomplishments of this nearly 500-page polemic, is that fifty-fifty equally I read through inward a reason of appall together with sadness, I was also reassured: I am non crazy. The metropolis actually has vanished…” – Daily Beast






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