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Ulrich C Baer is University Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He is author of numerous books, the most recent of which include What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth and Equality on Campus (2019), We Are But A Moment (2017), The Rilke Alphabet (2014), and Beggar's Chicken: Stories From Shanghai (2013).

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Collected stories from renowned and emerging voices writing fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose in the aftermath of 9/11
New York is a city of writers. And when the city was attacked on 9/11, its writers began to do what writers do, they began to look and feel and think and write, began to struggle to process an event unimaginable before, and even after, it happened. The work of journalists appeared immediately, in news reports, commentaries, and personal essays. But no single collection has yet recorded how New York writers of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose have responded to 9/11.
Now, in 110 Stories, Ulrich Baer has gathered a multi-hued range of voices that convey, with vivid immediacy and heightened imagination, the shock and loss suffered in September. From a stunning lineup of 110 renowned and emerging writers-including Paul Auster, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Edwidge Danticat, Vivian Gornick, Phillip Lopate, Dennis Nurkse, Melvin Bukiet, Susan Wheeler-these stories give readers not so much an analysis of what happened as the very shape and texture of a city in crisis, what it felt like to be here, the external and internal damage that the city and its inhabitants absorbed in the space and the aftermath of a few unforgettable hours. As A.M. Homes says in one of the book's eyewitness accounts, "There is no place to put this experience, no folder in the mental hard drive that says, 'catastrophe.' It is not something that you want to remember, not something that you want to forget." This collection testifies to the power of poetry and storytelling to preserve and give meaning to what seems overwhelming. It showcases the literary imagination in its capacity to gauge the impact of 9/11 on how we view the world.
Just as the stories of the World Trade towers were filled with people from all walks of life, the stories collected here reflect New York's true diversity, its boundless complexity and polyglot energy, its regenerative imagination, and its spirit of solidarity and endurance.
The editor's proceeds will be donated to charity. Cover art donated by Art Spiegelman.
List of Contributors: Humera Afridi, Ammiel Alcalay, Elena Alexander, Meena Alexander, Jeffery Renard Allen, Roberta Allen, Jonathan Ames, Darren Aronofsky, Paul Auster, Jennifer Belle, Jenifer Berman, Charles Bernstein, Star Black, Breyten Breytenbach, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Peter Carey, Lawrence Chua, Ira Cohen, Imraan Coovadia, Edwidge Danticat, Alice Elliot, Eric Darton, Lydia Davis, Samuel R. Delany, Maggie Dubris, Rinde Eckert, Janice Eidus, Masood Farivar, Carolyn Ferrell, Richard Foreman, Deborah Garrison, Amitav Ghosh, James Gibbons, Carol Gilligan, Thea Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Tim Griffin, Lev Grossman, John Guare, Sean Gullette, Jessica Hagedorn, Kimiko Hahn, Nathalie Handal, Carey Harrison, Joshua Henkin, Tony Hiss, David Hollander, A.M. Homes, Richard Howard, Laird Hunt, Siri Hustvedt, John Keene, John Kelly, Wayne Koestenbaum, Richard Kostelanetz, Guy Lesser, Jonathan Lethem, Jocelyn Lieu, Tan Lin, Sam Lipsyte, Phillip Lopate, Karen Malpede, Charles McNulty, Pablo Medina, Ellen Miller, Paul D. Miller/DJ Spooky, Mark Jay, Tova Mirvis, Albert Mobilio, Alex Molot, Mary Morris, Tracie Morris, Anna Moschovakis, Richard Eoin Nash, Josip Novakovich, Dennis Nurkse, Geoffrey O'Brien, Larry O'Connor, Robert Polito, Nelly Reifler, Rose-Myriam Réjouis, Roxana Robinson, Avital Ronell, Daniel Asa Rose, Joe Salvatore, Grace Schulman, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Dani Shapiro, Akhil Sharma, Suzan Sherman, Jenefer Shute, Hal Sirowitz, Pamela Sneed, Chris Spain, Art Spiegelman, Catharine R. Stimpson, Liz Swados, Lynne Tillman, Mike Topp, David Trinidad, Val Vinokurov, Chuck Wachtel, Mac Wellman, Owen West, Rachel Wetzsteon, Susan Wheeler, Peter Wortsman, John Yau, Christopher Yu.

Zusammenfassung
In "110 Stories", Ulrich Baer has gathered a multi-hued range of voices that convey, with vivid immediacy and heightened imagination, the shock and loss suffered in September. From a lineup of 110 renowned and emerging writers-including Paul Auster, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Edwidge Danticat.

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CONTENTS

1 HUMERA AFRIDI Circumference 10

2 AMMIEL ALCALAY night of unity 13

3 ELENA ALEXANDER Circum 19

4 MEENA ALEXANDER Aftermath; Invisible City 21

5 JEFFERY RENARD ALLEN It Shall Be Again 23

6 ROBERTA ALLEN The Sky Was So Blue 26

7 JONATHAN AMES Womb Shelter 28

8 DARREN ARONOFSKY A First Kiss 32

9 PAUL AUSTER Random Notes;September 11,

2001, 4:00 p.m.; Underground 34

10 JENNIFER BELLE Gelato Is Gelato 37

11 JENIFER BERMAN Prologue: The Book of John 40

12 CHARLES BERNSTEIN Report from Liberty Street 42

13 STAR BLACK Perfect Weather 47

14 BREYTEN BREYTENBACH New York,

12 September 2001 49

15 MELVIN JULES BUKIET from Manhattan

Rhapsody 51

16 PETER CAREY Union Square 54

17 LAWRENCE CHUA The Quick and the Poor 57

18 IRA COHEN Holy Smoke 60

19 IMRAAN COOVADIA The Same Tune 62

20 EDWIDGE DANTICAT on the day of the dead 64

21 ALICE ELLIOT DARK Senseless 65

22 ERIC DARTON The Therm 68

23 LYDIA DAVIS Grammar Questions 72