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« Times to publish classified doc | Main | Pop music? Or bad Theory class? » Friday, December 22, 2006City of ghostsPhil Baker, whose work I don't know, has a very nice essay-review in the new (London) Times Literary Supplement on a book about things that have disappeared in London: Iain Sinclair's "London: City of Disappearances." Great topic. Cities are about death and rebirth, appearance and disappearance. They're works of art that remake themselves before our eyes -- often, at least to the misty-eyed observer, with disastrous results. In New York we're in the midst of losing three of the once-great bookstores (old story), and the Tower Records branches of course. That's just retail. Restaurants have a shelf life of about six months. And I remember a Boston from my youth, particularly the grubby bits near Downtown Crossing and Fenway Park, that is no longer there for me when I return. Now we have new buildings to build memories around, and to be sad about when they're gone. Posted by Evan Hughes at 10:33 AM
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