![]() At those lowest moments in trying to make it all work, I thought there has to be something more than just the three thousand miles to show for my own endless ill-advised efforts. I know I did, I know I sometimes still do. Advertisement Directions to 1 Barnes and Noble Way Get step-by-step walking or driving directions to 1 Barnes and Noble Way, Monroe Twp, NJ. But as a friend of mine once said, Nobody does New York like California, and so maybe the Californian New York girls self-mythologize the hardest. Sometimes it’s so literal, the way certain New York City girls sees themselves in that particularly glossy black-and-white of celluloid, maybe the way we’d think some precious prairie girl could see her existence dipped in a foggy sepia. You’ve worked so hard to get there, and then you arrive and you’re very much stuck-you hate it and yet you feel like you’re in an impossibly glamourous movie of you-you can’t afford rent or food but somehow you still do-you’re not quite any first, but never quite the very last-and that’s your life, the tension between fact and fiction always aswirl. The story goes that every New York City girl self-mythologizes. ![]()
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