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"This book is one of a kind: a view straight through the stone and steel, an x-ray of the city's consciousness. Colette Brooks writes like someone telling a secret."
- Luc Sante
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"In the City is a lively mix of narrative, catechism, reportage, memoir, and meditative essay. This is an engaging book, so fraught with self-consciousness as to bring into question our notions of writing and literary structure."
- Billy Collins, author of Sailing Alone Around the Room
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"I've read In the City three times and expect to read it again. In lovely, exact prose Colette Brooks has fixed her experience of urban life with insight and compassion and humor and a sense of the encompassing mystery."
- Stanley Kauffmann
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"What a bright, enchanting, radiant new voice! Through Colette Brooks's eyes - and her gorgeously crafted prose - I see my beloved city anew, and discover it all over again."
- Jay Neugeboren, author of Transforming Madness
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"The modern city, never more so than now, needs its intimate observers and quirky chroniclers. It needs passionate walkers and devoted eavesdroppers, collectors of disparate facts, images, and impressions. Colette Brooks's portrait is fragmented, edgy, tough-minded, unabashedly affectionate - a vivid reminder of a love affair that began with Whitman and Crane."
- John Loughery, author of John Sloan: Painter and Rebel
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"Colette Brooks, with In the City, invents a kaleidoscope of prose that shocks and stirs the urban heart and mindset into shifting forms and patterns - color, sadness, shock of recognition, slice of history; lostness, foundness. 'In the city, Brooks reflects, `once the unlikely has occurred, it seems inevitable.' So do the eye and memorable voice of Colette Brooks."
- Lois Gould, author of Mommy Dressing: A Love Story, After a Fashion (PEN/Jerard Fund Award citation)
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