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“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.”

People Stories America Reading Next Cities Watches New York Conversation Tables Train Newspapers Restaurants Subway

Author:Bill Geist

“Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.”

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“I sometimes think that the American story is the one about the reading of the will.”

Thinking Sometimes Stories America Reading

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz's Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.”

Facts America Song Culture Reading Vision Listening Surprising Bob Multiple Angle Shifting Thrilling Dylan American Culture Sean

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even at its most intense and verisimilitudinous is vicarious, and once you close the book you're off the hook.”

Book America Reading White Race Racism Solutions Remains Lists Wounds Intense Obsession Hook Sellers Best Sellers Vicarious Catapults

Book:Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race

Source: Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race