The Everyday Wonders of City Life
How residents experience them—and how it feels when they are taken away
by Isabel Fattal
May 13, 2023
1 minute
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For the past several years, my colleague Xochitl Gonzalez readers home with her. This home, which she calls “Old Brooklyn,” is more than just a place. It’s also a complex culture, and even a distinct dialect, she in 2021: “The base is American English, but turns of phrase and the lexicon itself are peppered with a hodgepodge of Yiddish, Italian, Caribbean, Spanish, Hip-Hop, and disgraceful feral-street-urchin slang not fit for a literary publication such as . At least not until now.”
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