Guy Trebay: In the Place to Be

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>All of New York is Guy Trebay's New York: the streets, the alleys, the chic shops, the zoo; the rappers, the drag queens, the kids in the public pool, the subway artist<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566392785&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1114_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>In The Place To Be</h1> <H2>Guy Trebay's New York</H2> <h3>Guy Trebay, photographs by Sylvia Plachy</h3> <P>cloth 1-56639-278-0 $77.50, Nov 94, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <br>paper 1-56639-208-X $26.95, Nov 94, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <BR> 384 pp 5.5x8.5 19 halftones </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"This is a frank and engaging look at a city that teaches its inhabitants not to make eye contact."</I> <br>&#151<b><I>The New York Times</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>In this collection of spirited essays, Trebay reports on the dramatic and subtle changes in his city during the 1980s and 1990s. Tuned in to the stray comment and the characteristic gesture, he charts the city's history eye-to-eye with the people who made it. "When I was a kid in New York, the subways were a place for perfect comportment: riders took their seats, made a vertical fold in the Times, crossed ankles (women), adjusted hats, smoothed the skirts of their Peck & Peck suits, and shut up....I couldn't tell you the moment when the subway became a nonstop subterranean exercise in group therapy with the spirit of Sylvia Frumkin calling the shots. But I'd guess it was in the 1970s. So much weirdness started then...." <p>Driven by curiosity into obscure corners and marginal neighborhood of the city, a Trebay essay captures fragile moments in the life of a place or an individual. Accompanied perfectly by Sylvia Plachy's often mystical, odd-angled photographs, the essays create a kaleidoscope of people, places, and conversations in the city that is constantly reinventing itself. Trebay freeze-frames it all, even the seemingly permanent "air of self-importance, a conviction that when you're here, you're in the place to be." <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"New York has been in a journalistic crisis for years, with almost everyone unsure of how to cover the new city that is emerging&#151a city of immigrants and poor people, great pains and hard pleasures, needles and trash and rhythms and spices and smells. Guy Trebay is a magnificent exception to this dreary rule: as E.B. White did in his day, Trebay comprehends both the particulars of this new New York and the mood they add up to. He is an absolutely necessary reporter, and also a pleasure to read."</I> <br>&#151<b>Bill McKibben</b>, author of <I>The End of Nature</I> <p><i>"Trebay, a columnist and editor at the Village Voice, is a good writer, a gutsy man and a mensch.... Since 1981, Trebay has watched and listened to New Yorkers, opening up parts of the city generally beyond his readers' purview....these human-interest stories are worth dipping into."</i> <br>&#151<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Introduction <p><b>Parts of Speech</b> <br>1. Talk That Talk <p><b>Some Originals</b> <br>2. Worlds in a Small Room <br>3. Down There on a Visit <br>4. The End of the World in Wax <br>5. 'Mach Schnell,' Shortcakes! <br>6. The Job Well Done <br>7. Baucis and Philemon in the Bronx <br>8. Candy Says <br>9. Hoofing It <br>10. My Grandson the Shaman <p><b>The Sweet Sell</b> <br>11. Junk 'n' Stuff <br>12. Deaf Jam <br>13. Broadway Hustle <br>14. Insane!!! <br>15. I'm Dreaming of a White Column <br>16. Going Off <br>17. In the Salsa Zone <p><b>Kinship</b <br>18. Kanesha and Aunt Te <br>19. The World as We Knew It <br>20. Thomas Wilson's Unfinished Business <br>21. Turn On, Turn In <br>22. Bronx Cheer <br>23. The Mourning News <p><b>Rituals</b> <br>24. The Horse Knows the Way <br>25. Have a Fresh Day <br>26. Under One Tent <br>27. Le Look <br>28. Net Gain, Net Loss <br>29. Reasons to be Cheerful <br>30. The Countdown <br>31. Eyes on the Prize <br>32. What Is Love? <p><b>The Faith</b> <br>33. Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room <br>34. He Want You But He Do Not Need You <br>35. God's Acre <br>36. Bless the Beasts <br>37. Articles of Faith <p><b>Pangloss City</b> <br>38. The Strange Garden of David Hammons <br>39. The Rose and the Thorn <br>40. Machine Dreams <br>41. Purple Reign <br>42. Mixed Greens <p><b>Dreams Deferred</b> <br>43. A Pompeian Flower in New York <br>44. Too Many Tellings <br>45. Tunnel Vision <br>46. One More Sot <br>47. Hanging in the Flow <br>48. Dog Day Afternoon <br>49. Drug Rules <br>50. The War at Home <br>51. Rules of the Game <br>52. Urban Underdevelopment <p><b>High Times</b> <br>53. Swing Time <br>54. Land of a Thousand Dances <br>55. Circus Nerves <br>56. The Spirit Is Willing <br>57. Guerillas Night Out <br>58. Come as Your Are <br>59. Come Here Often? <p><b>Under One Sky</b> <br>60. Auk Auk Auk <br>61. WET <br>62. Wild Style <br>63. Heap of Trouble <br>64. Rites of Spring <br>65. The Hole Story <br>66. Closed for the Season <br>67. "_ _ _ _ _" <br>68. The Three Bears <br>69. A Very Young Elephant <br>70. Life at C <p><b>Everything Must Go</b> <br>71. Everything Must Go </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Guy Trebay</b>, a columnist and senior editor at <i>The Village Voice</I>, writes frequently for <I>The New Yorker</I>, <I>Vibe</I>, <I>Conde Nast Traveler</I>, <I>Grand Street</I>, and many other national publications.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/general.html" TARGET="_top">General Interest</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/art.html" TARGET="_top">Art and Photography</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781566392785&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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