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On the waterfront.(Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan)(Book Review)
On the waterfront
Phillip Lopate Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan. Crown, 432 pages, $25.95
There is a genre of writing that can be called "On the Road" literature. It often attempts to portray the enigmatic ordinary of Elsewhere in a series of trenchant, if necessarily superficial, observations. Writers of this kind of ostensible nonfiction are almost always outsiders, intellectually curious sophisticates with a wandering bent who bring a sharp eye, ear, and journalistic voice to their travels. Photographers hit the road for the same purpose, sometimes producing indelibly memorable, culture-defining images. Still, there are pitfalls here. Within ...
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