8 Wonderful Short Stories Set In New York City
“Emerald City” by Jennifer Egan
“Emerald City” is but one of the stories in Egan’s collection, also titled Emerald City. We follow Rory, a city transplant who dreams of cocaine-fueled early mornings in the East Village with his struggling model girlfriend, who, by the end of the story, delivers the best possible comeback to a snooty world-traveling fellow model who asks where she’s even been: “I’ve been to New York,” she says. BOOM.
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