Book review: 'Vintage Contemporaries' from Slate editor Dan Kois is an affectionate ode to '90s New York
"Vintage Contemporaries" By Dan Kois Emily Thiel, fresh to New York City by way of college and Wausau, Wisconsin, often has her nose stuck in a book. It's 1991, so it's usually a Vintage Contemporary -- a Random House imprint started in 1984 that showcased new authors with striking graphic covers featuring dot matrix accents and blocks of color.
Together, the two explore lower Manhattan and all it has to offer in the 1990s: pierogies at Veselka, book shopping at St. Marks Bookstore, Hal Hartley movies from Kim's Video Store, Tony Kushner's play"Angels in America," and defending squats near Tomkins Square Park.
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