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Eleanor Lerman is a writer who lives in New York. Her first book of poetry, Armed Love (Wesleyan University Press, 1973), published when she was twenty-one, was nominated for a National Book Award. She has since published four other award-winning collections of poetry—Come the Sweet By and By (University of Massachusetts Press, 1975); The Mystery of Meteors (Sarabande Books, 2001); Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds (Sarabande Books, 2005); and The Sensual World Re-Emerges (Sarabande Books, 2010), along with The Blonde on the Train (Mayapple Press, 2009) a collection of short stories. She was awarded the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the Nation magazine for the year's most outstanding book of poetry f ...more

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THE FIFTY-FIVE MINUTE CITY

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The Game Café Stories of New York City in Covid Time by Eleanor Lerman

FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD

That was the headline of the New York Daily News on October 30, 1975, referring to then-president Gerald Ford’s refusal to help rescue New York City from a fiscal crisis that threatened to drive the city into a catastrophic bankruptcy. The Republican-led federal government looked at New York City and decided that this bastion Read more of this blog post »

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