Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor in Chief of Current Affairs

Magazine. I am joined today by the novelist Griffin Hansberry, who is also known as

Jeremiah Moss. And as Jeremiah Moss.

And as Jeremiah Moss is the author of the book's Vanishing New York.

How a great city lost its soul, as well as Feral City on finding liberation in lockdown, New York.

Jeremiah Moss, welcome to current affairs.

Thank you. It's good to be here.

So Jeremiah Moss is a pseudonym that you have written under for many years.

Your blog, Jeremiah's Vanishing New York attracted a lot of notice.

You were, let's see, I think I have, what was it the, that you were described as by the New York Times, a, I have the, I have the phrase here somewhere.

It was some kind of curmudgeon.

I think that was the number one word associated with you.

Yeah, that word often came up a lot. Yeah, it did.

As you wrote about this, but you wrote about the disappearance of a certain aspect of New York,

a certain version of New York, and that's what we want to discuss today.

So first, ah yes, Comedgeon with a Pension for Apocalyptic Bombast. That's what I was looking for.

I wanted to read that, and also New York Daily News, I think, described it was a fetishist for filth, which is also a wonderful description.

Sorry, I had to find those because they're so good.

Combudgeon for apocalyptic bombast.

But yeah, so as I say, Jeremiah Moss is a pseudonym, though.

So tell us a little more about who you are when you write as Jeremiah Moss.

Yeah.

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