This is how television shows like Girls and Friends get made without people of color in them this is how cities like Beirut or Baghdad become synonymous with destruction, violence, danger, stripped of any feature but the brokenness forced on them. We build cities out of the stories we tell about them - cities that sometimes barely overlap with those in which people actually live, existing somewhere between dream and reality. We form relationships with these cities: just as we pave their streets with layers of history and names out of books, so do images of them make up the brick and mortar of our minds.
London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles - these places are so often movie sets, so often represented in novels and songs, that people are drawn to visit, photograph, and write about them in turn. Some cities are gravity wells of story: The more we read about them, the more we write about them. I think often about cities and the stories we tell about them. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Certain Dark Things Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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