Dancers

"Everybody warms up in front of the mirror, but she posed and danced at herself as if she were the only person in the room."

~ Mary Gaitskill

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/my-new-york-50th-anniversary-issue.html#my-tormentor


"...and it was such a performance she was giving me with the bright sun of early summer pouring in through her apartment window and all the sumac shuddering out there."

~ Eileen Myles

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/my-new-york-50th-anniversary-issue.html#my-one-handed-neighbor

"Kushner’s was — to use the crude power-mapping skills I was taught to hone in my youth — a very Jersey view of power."

~ R. Traister

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/my-new-york-50th-anniversary-issue.html#my-snobs

"Pajama, named for the prewar slang phrase, spends much of her time in my prewar window."

~ J. Wiener

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/my-new-york-50th-anniversary-issue.html#my-voyeurs

"He emitted a calming energy, like a gong struck so long ago you can no longer hear it."

~ H. Jukavits

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/my-new-york-50th-anniversary-issue.html#my-one-good-roommate