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Jamaica Kincaid's collected writings for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" record her first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.
Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for
The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time when she first arrived in the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid developed a unique voice, both in sync with William Shawn's tone for the quintessential elite magazine and (though unsigned) all her own-wonderingly alive to the ironies and screwball details that characterized her adopted city. The book also reflects Kincaid's development as a young writer-the newcomer who sensitively records her impressions here takes root to become one of our most respected authors.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
West Indian weekend
Daytime dancing, a report
The magic is blue
A commercial party
Time with Pryor
Bells and drells
Lunchtime
Free-ee-ee
Junior Miss
A civic gathering
In Central Park
The fourth
Boz Scaggs
A gathering
Notes and comment
Notes and comment
Interests
Charm
Garland Jeffreys
Nothing in mind
Notes and comment
Notes and comment
Pippo
Honors
Dinosaurs
Kenya
Cheese
Notes and comment
Soap
Collecting
Memorandum
Recollections
Off to China
Office workers
The world of letters
Over here
Cat
G-L-O-R-I-A
The ages of woman
Festival
Unveiling
Miss Jamaica
Hair
Thirty years ago
Noon
Notes and comment
Mayor
Books
Colloquy about Sting
Three parties
Expense account
The governor's party
Sara
Runner
Party
Royalty
Two book parties
Audition
Benefit
New
Great
Romance
Novel
Cat story
The exercise
Car questions
Tableware
Prince
Notes and comment
The apprentice
Birthday party at an East Side town house
Foam and brass
Knitting
Notes and comment
Luncheon
At Mr. Chow's
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Jamaica Kincaid; Introduction by Ian Frazier
