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Gowanus Crossing: A Brooklyn Boyhood
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The Scientists: A Family Romance
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Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel
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Hotel Kid: A Times Square Childhood
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Sleeping Arrangements
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L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir
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The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
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City Boy: My Life in New York in the 1960s and 70s
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Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx
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Kitchen Privileges
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Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood
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Manhattan, When I Was Young
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The Men in My Life: A Memoir of Love and Art in 1950s Manhattan
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Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950's
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Trans Figured: My Journey from Boy to Girl to Woman to Man
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Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
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Fierce Attachments
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My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement
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1185 Park Avenue: A Memoir
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The Rat That Got Away: A Bronx Memoir
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Through the Children's Gate: A Home in New York
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Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History
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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
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House of Sticks
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Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle's Memoir
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Summer at Tiffany
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Beautiful Country
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We Set the Night on Fire: Igniting the Gay Revolution
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Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
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I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s
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At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York
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My Old Neighborhood Remembered: A Memoir
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Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family
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The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood
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The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir
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Harpo Speaks...About New York
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Nightlight: A Memoir
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Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties
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Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival
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The Community
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Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
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The Odd Woman and the City
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Lot Six
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From Baghdad to Brooklyn: Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family in Midcentury America
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir
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Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
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Unwifeable: A Memoir
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Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation
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Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Boyhood
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Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir
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I Am Not Myself These Days
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A Wild and Precious Life
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The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village
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Growing Up Bank Street: A Greenwich Village Memoir
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Growing Up Golem: How I Survived My Mother, Brooklyn, and Some Really Bad Dates
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Memoirs of a Beatnik
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When I Was Puerto Rican
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Teacher Man (Frank McCourt, #3)
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Bad Boy: A Memoir
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A Voice from Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth
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Art and Sex in Greenwich Village: A Memoir of Gay Literary Life After Stonewall
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Playground: Growing Up in the New York Underground
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Dumbfounded: Big Money. Big Hair. Big Problems. Or Why Having It All Isn't for Sissies.
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Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
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I'm Not Trying To Be Difficult: Stories from the Restaurant Trenches
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I Regret Almost Everything
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The Unboxing of a Black Girl
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Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood
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Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City
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Lost on Treasure Island: A Memoir of Longing, Love, and Lousy Choices in New York City
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Almost a Woman
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Openings: A Memoir from the Women's Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992
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The Virgin of Bennington
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Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years
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Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw
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Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence
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Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son's Memoir
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Arbitrary Stupid Goal
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The Skin Above My Knee
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After Andy: Adventures in Warhol Land
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My Father's Gun: One Family, Three Badges, One Hundred Years in the NYPD
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Intimacy Idiot
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Young Man From The Provinces: A Gay Life Before Stonewall
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Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy
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Going into the City: Portrait of a Critic as a Young Man
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In the Shadow of the Bridge: A Memoir
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Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me
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The Yelp: A Heartbreak in Reviews
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Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s
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You Are Here: A Memoir of Arrival
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Crossing Ocean Parkway
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