Faraway, So Close (New York after Rona part ii)

Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything

Benjamen Walker & Radiotopia

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

March 2020, writer Craig Taylor believed he was finally done with his 11 year oral history project featuring the voices of people who live and work in New York City. He wasn’t. His incredible new book New Yorkers provides us with a number of first person accounts of the Covid19 crisis and primes us to think about what’s next for the city. Plus: photographer Renate Aller on the social distancing pictures she took on the street outside her Soho loft during the worst of the crisis.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Benjamin Walker's theory of everything.
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0:23.0	This instrument is called far away so close.
0:30.0	I love books about New York City.
0:37.0	In fact, books about New York are probably the main reason I moved to this city in the first place.
0:44.0	But still, today, I remain an easy mark.
0:49.0	I still devour and collect books.
0:54.0	I still devour and collect books about the city's past, present, and future.
1:01.0	One of my latest favorites is a book called New Yorkers.
1:06.0	I read it last spring when I was still living on the island in France and COVID exiled,
1:12.0	which only made me long for the city even more.
1:17.0	New Yorkers is an oral history.
1:21.0	The author, Craig Taylor, spoke with recorded and transcribed the words of hundreds of New Yorkers he met after moving to the city in 2008.
1:33.0	But just as he was finishing up, 11 years later, COVID arrived on the scene.
1:39.0	So New Yorkers is much more than just an oral history of a place.
1:44.0	It's also real-time oral history of one of the most challenging moments New York City's ever faced.
1:51.0	My name is Craig Taylor and I'm a writer. That's basically it.
1:56.0	Craig Taylor has written a number of books about places.
2:00.0	Before New Yorkers, he did the same thing in London.
2:03.0	He spoke with recorded and transcribed the voices of Londoners, talking about the city they lived and worked in.
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