In New York Days, the long-awaited sequel to the prize-winning
North Toward Home, Willie Morris recalls his triumphant, exciting,
and ultimately devastating years as the youngest ever
editor-in-chief of Harper's, America's oldest magazine, when he was
at the center of the nation's stunning cosmos of writing,
publishing, politics, and the arts. It was the 1960s, when New York
City was a place "throbbing with possibility" and "in which
everyone seemed to know everyone else and where everything of
importance seemed to happen first". These were Willie Morris's New
York days - with William Styron, David Halberstam, Woody Allen,
Bobby Kennedy, Truman Capote, Shirley MacLaine, George Plimpton,
Leonard Bernstein, and the other leading figures of the time. For
he knew them all: the writers, the poets, the intellectuals, the
editors, the actresses, the tycoons, the detectives, the athletes,
and not a few fakirs and charlatans. He wined with Sinatra at the
Players Club and eavesdropped in the trattorias on the Mob; sat
next to DiMaggio in the Garden ringside seats and spent evenings at
Elaine's. And during the day, Morris worked to transform Harper's
from an uninspired literary magazine to its apex as the
groundbreaking political and cultural voice of the '60s, until the
editorial rift and the mass resignations of 1971 - possibly the
most notable dispute in American publishing history. New York Days
is a portrait of an era, but it is also a poignant, deeply personal
yet universal story of a man's life: a man who attains everything
he has ever hoped for only to realize that what he has sacrificed
is even greater. For in the process of reaching the pinnacle of his
career, Morris also experiencedprofound loss: the dissolution of
his marriage and the breakdown of the magazine as he helped create
it. Now, from a vantage point of more than twenty years and a
thousand miles, Morris asks his younger self: "Where on earth,
fast-moving boy, are you going now?" And what, if anything, did it
all mean? Beautifully written with bittersweet lyricism and
exuberant humor, New York Days captures the spirit of the '60s: the
dazzling parties, the fervent intellectualism, and the sense of
slowly decaying idealism as the country plunged deeper into a
tragic war and intensifying social chaos. And in the midst of this
scene is Willie Morris, exalted, exhilarated, and eventually almost
consumed by his brilliant, electric, enervating New York days.
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