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“I want [my daughter] to understand what New York, my birthplace and home, once beloved to me, is really about.  Because I’m convinced that the beating heart of the city today is not its art galleries, its boutiques, its restaurant or bars, its theaters, its museums, not its miserable remnants in manufacturing, not its creative types – its writers, dancers, artists, sculptors, thinkers, musicians, or god forbid, its journalists.

            “Here,” I tell her, standing in the canyons of world finance, “is what New York is about.  Sociopaths getting really rich while everyone else just sits on their asses and lets it happen.””

            ~Christopher Ketcham (from Orion November/December 2011)