The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found (Gift Article)

This piece by Colson Whitehead is one of my favorite things ever written. I've shared it many times with folks over the years. It was published two months after 9/11, and I believe it's one of the greatest things ever put to pen about grief, memory, and time. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

“The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.” www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

Still my favorite New York essay (not even necessarily as a 9/11 thing) www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

🎁Gift Article to share full article The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found By Colson Whitehead Nov. 11, 2001 www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

One of my favourite 9/11 pieces ever wasn't really about 9/11 so much as about the city, written by Colston Whitehead. "One day the city we built will be gone, and when it goes, we go. When the buildings fall, we topple, too." www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

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As of today I've lived in New York longer than I lived in the city where I grew up, which is wild to think about. So I had to hunt down Colson Whitehead's beautiful 2001 essay about the New York City(ies) of everyone's memory and imagination (gift link):

Colson Whitehead a few weeks after 9/11 on what it means to love this city and its people. Reread it every year www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found, a piece written by Colson Whitehead just a month after 9/11. “The New York City you live in is not my New York City; how could it be? This place multiplies when you’re not looking.” [nytimes.com]

“You start building your private New York the first time you lay eyes on it. Maybe you were in a cab leaving the airport when the skyline first roused itself into view. All your worldly possessions were in the trunk, and in your hand you held an address” www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

“The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone… Our streets are calendars containing who we were and who we will be next” I re-read this November 2001 essay by Colson Whitehead every few years. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

Sorry it took me nearly 25 years to find this. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

One of my favourite 9/11 pieces ever wasn't really about 9/11 so much as about the city, written by Colston Whitehead in 2003. "One day the city we built will be gone, and when it goes, we go. When the buildings fall, we topple, too." www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

Here, read this instead. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

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Oh, my. A beautiful piece by Colson Whitehead…. #NYC4Evah The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

NYC. On 9/11 and everyday from one of my favorite writers.

Annual @colsonwhitehead.com reading www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

"We seek ourselves in this city each time we reminisce about what was there 5, 10, 40 years ago, because all our old places are proof that we were here. One day the city we built will be gone, and when it goes, we go. When the buildings fall, we topple, too." — @colsonwhitehead.com ❤️‍🩹🗽

“Cherish your old apartments and pause for a moment when you pass them. Pay tribute, for they are the caretakers of your reinventions.” www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m... NYT article about NYC in the aftermath of 9/11 by Colson Whitehead from November 2001, shared by a friend on FB. It's even more resonant almost 25 years later.

My favorite essay about my favorite place. Even more than EB White’s.

The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

Every year on 9/11, I reread this wonderful @colsonwhitehead.com essay. It's my favorite piece of writing about my favorite city. Give it a read. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

As a New Yorker for nearly 4 decades now, I’m not big on 9/11 memorials👇🏼 I like 2 pieces in particular about the horror visited on us on this date: “The Way We Live Now” Colson Whitehead - FREE LINK www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m... & “Falling Man” Tom Junod www.esquire.com/news-politic...

🎁Gift Article to share full article recommended by Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social 🙏💔 The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found By Colson Whitehead Nov. 11, 2001 www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

Colson Whitehead did some of the best writing on 9/11 (and on what it is to be a New Yorker); I always start crying at the second sentence of the second paragraph www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...