Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me / Bill Hayes.
Publication details: New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.Description: 291 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781620404935
- Hayes, Bill, 1961-
- Hayes, Bill, 1961- -- Diaries
- Hayes, Bill, 1961- -- Relations with men
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
- Hayes, Bill, 1961-
- Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015
- 2000-2099
- Autobiographies
- Biography
- Gay men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Authors -- Biography
- Photographers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Essayists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Neurologists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- Street photography -- New York (State) -- New York
- Gay men -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
- Authors
- Essayists
- Gay men
- Man-woman relationships
- Manners and customs
- Neurologists
- Photographers
- Street photography
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Portraits
- New York (State) -- New York
- 974.71044092 23
- CT220.5 .H39 2017
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 974.71 HAY | Available | 065972 |
Part I: Insomniac City -- Insomniac City -- Sleep: loss -- Black crow -- O and I -- On becoming a New Yorker -- Subway Lifer -- The summer Michael Jackson dies -- A fisherman on the subway -- A poem written on the stars -- The moving man -- For the skateboarders -- Part II: On being not dead -- The thank-you man -- The same taxi twice -- The weeping man -- On being not dead -- On a typewriter -- At the skateboard park -- A woman who knew her way -- Driving a supermodel -- Lessons from the smoke shop -- A year in trees -- On Father's Day -- Part III: How New York breaks your heart -- My afternoon with Ilona -- His name is Raheem -- A Monet of one's own -- But -- Everything that I don't have -- A pencil sharpener -- Home -- Postscript.
A "celebration of what [writer and photographer] Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late [neurologist] Oliver Sacks"--Amazon.com.