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Winner of the New York City Book Award
From the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in stories and images to a city amidst a pandemic.
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the United States in March 2020 and New York went into total lockdown, writer and photographer Bill Hayes hit the largely deserted streets of Manhattan to try to document-through words and photographs-how the city was changing virtually overnight. How We Live Now records those first 100 days of the pandemic in real time-a time of both hopefulness and great fear, long before we had effective Covid testing and vaccines-up to and including the historic Blacks Lives Matter demonstrations following the tragic murder of George Floyd.
Featuring Hayes's inimitable street photographs, How We Live Now chronicles an unimaginable moment in time with his signature insight and grace, offering a glimpse at our shared humanity.
Published | 25 Aug 2020 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 160 |
ISBN | 9781635576894 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Bill Hayes has unwrapped a New York under wraps during the lockdown. He is, in his photos and writings, the great poet of the everyday.
Edmund White
A touching volume . . . The photos serve as potent documentation of an unprecedented time.
Kirkus Reviews
This is a love story - for one particular man in the love affair that began as the pandemic did, for the city of New York and its people coping with an unanticipated catastrophe, for what words can do, for the light and darkness, shade and illumination of black-and-white street photography, for wandering and encountering and seeing, for being truly a citizen of the city and an inhabitant of the streets. Even at a moment when we were all supposed to withdraw from each other How We Live Now reaches out
Rebecca Solnit
[A] loving tribute to Sacks and to New York . . . Frank, beautiful, bewitching-[Hayes's photographs] unmask their subjects' best and truest selves.
Jennifer Senior, New York Times on INSOMNIAC CITY
Poetic and profound . . . A lyrical reminder that happiness and heartache are inseparably entwined . . . Insomniac City is an ineffably splendid read in its entirety, a mighty packet of pure aliveness.
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings on INSOMNIAC CITY
Like Patti Smith's haunting M Train, Hayes' book weaves seemingly disparate threads of memory into a kind of sanctuary . . . where one can shake off the treasured relics of past lives and prepare to be reborn anew.
San Francisco Chronicle on INSOMNIAC CITY
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