Hart Crane when he's going on about the bridge, for sure, Whitman on the ferry and, maybe, the Cheever stories about the city.

Look, I hate that I know what this means ... [mumbles] internet traditions.

This is a word that I butchered until I just had to ask someone from Philadelphia, with as much humility as I had, what the name of that river is.

fuck yes!

Initially, I though that this was about the Trader Joe's parking lot ... at any of the Trader Joe's

Honorable mention for Vineland, which I didn't dislike, but it's different now, many years later, when it's clear that there are only like two characters that get to be real people.

I did not like if Beale Street Could Talk

Noone gets to grow or be anything other than a stand-in for an idea or a goofy plot device

I think that Twilight Sleep is the worst Wharton novel

I did not like Justine, though I did start watching the Durrells of Corfu - but that was mostly because of the extended joke in the last season of Brooklyn 99.