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Writers on Their Difficult—And Not So Difficult—Breakups with New York City

A Tribute

In a new book, 28 writers tell their stories of how they fell in love—and came to leave—New York.

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In her now iconic essay “Goodbye to All That,” Joan Didion wrote about her early love-struck days in New York City, and how it all came to an end.

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