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110 STORIES NEW YORK WRITES AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 Edited by Ulrich Baer New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do—they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The work of journalists appeared immediately, in news reports, commentaries, and personal essays. But no single collection has yet recorded how New York writers of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose have responded to 9/11. Now, in 110 STORIES, Ulrich Baer has gathered a multi-hued range of voices that convey, with vivid immediacy and heightened imagination, the shock and loss suffered in September. From a stunning lineup of renowned and emerging writers... these stories give readers a sense of the very texture of a city in crisis, what it felt like to live here, and the external and internal damage that the city and its inhabitants absorbed in the aftermath of a few terrifying hours.... This collection testifies to the power of storytelling and poetry to preserve and give meaning to what seems overwhelming. It showcases the literary imagination in its capacity to gauge the impact of 9/11 on how we view the world. Just as the 110 stories of the World Trade Center towers were filled with people from all walks of life, the 110 stories collected here reflect New York's true diversity, its boundless complexity and polyglot energy, its regenerative imagination, its spirit of solidarity and endurance. BABY LUST Janice Eidus And then on the morning of 9-11-2001, at a little after nine o'clock, I find myself standing out on Sixth Avenue in the West Village, just a few blocks from my apartment, just a couple of miles from the World Trade Center, close enough to feel that I can reach out and touch the flames. I watch as the second plane hits, watch as the buildings burn and disintegrate, crumbling like cigarettes. (excerpt from the essay, BABY LUST) © Janice Eidus |
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