This is my last Sept 11th post for a really long time, I hope. There are far too many Sept 11 books to mention them all here. My short list includes books I've mentioned in other posts.
For background, start with The Island at the Center of the World by Robert Shorto first mentioned here.
For the 1760s until Sept 12 read Forever (fiction) by Pete Hamill or Downtown a non-fiction much shorter essay. For a sense of the feelings of a diverse group of NYC (non?) fictional characters now during a 24 hour period at the end of a paper Tabloid newspaper, Tabloid City is an interesting read.
While I had verbally heard the story from a guard who was working at the Tweed Court House on Sept 11th when the Museum of the City of New York was having its first board meeting there, you might want to read board member Pete Hamill's account that was published in the Daily News this year.
Mayor Bloomberg recently suggested that we drop the term Ground Zero and look to the future but there are two books that do capture the time when the term had real meaning. I have already mentioned Joel Meyerowitz's Aftermath for a visual archive. For a literary history, I recommend American Ground the unbuilding of the World Trade Center .
On to wonderful happenings this fall in NYC.
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