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City of Night Information
267 words, approx. 1 pages
City of Night is a novel written by John Rechy. Set in the 1960s, the book follows the travels of a young man (Rechy uses the term “youngman” when referring to hustlers) across the country while working as a hustler. The book focuses chapters on...


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N.Y. Fashion Week lowdown: Short skirts
2/4/2007: 527 words, approx. 2 pages
It looks like leg wear is here to stay, at least through fall. Textured tights are the first must-have item to emerge from New York Fashion Week _ you need them to wear with all the short, flirty skirts.On Sunday afternoon, DKNY and Tracy Reese...
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NY Fashion Week lowdown: Short skirts
2/4/2007: 527 words, approx. 2 pages
It looks like leg wear is here to stay, at least through fall. Textured tights are the first must-have item to emerge from New York Fashion Week _ you need them to wear with all the short, flirty skirts.On Sunday afternoon, DKNY and Tracy Reese...
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The New York Observer
Will They Riot at Other Music? Indie Faves Look to Get Rich
9/25/2005: 974 words, approx. 3 pages
Forget the autumnal equinox. Fall begins on Oct. 1 with the Across the Narrows music festival, or (as I like to call it) Death to the Siren Music Festival. Headlined by Beck, the Pixies, the Killers and Oasis—we all make mistakes—it is four large concerts...
 


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Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by James R. Giles
6,224 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following essay, Giles compares Rechy's City of Night with James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, arguing that Rechy's work has greater significance because it emphasizes homosexuality over ethnicity.
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Critical Essay by Warren Tallman
246 words, approx. 1 pages
Rechy's City of Night follows in its way much the same path that Kerouac traced in On the Road, eastside, westside and all around the country. And part of his desire—wild reaching of the writer's organism—is to swing this huge cityscape wordwise with a series of variations on the theme of the male hustlers' experiences in the homerotic world through which his narrator wanders. The novel is sure to be read as a confessional exposé documenting the night side of homose...


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