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Finally, Someone With the Courage and Originality to Write About New York City in the 70s

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City on Fire, or “We Didn’t Start the Fire?”

For all I know, Hallberg’s novel is a towering masterpiece of American letters that is being ill-served by the people fawning over it. But the “finally somebody willing to discuss that most underdiscussed era and locale, gritty New York City in the 70s when men were men and artists were artists and muggers were muggers and Times Square had porno theaters and subway cars had graffiti” vibe of the reviews makes my bullshit detector go to about 50. (What potential reader of the book doesn’t know the things about the city in the 70s that Kakutani cites as examples of Hallberg’s attention to period detail?)

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