{"id":4142,"date":"2011-09-29T22:39:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T02:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?page_id=4142"},"modified":"2011-09-29T22:56:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T02:56:24","slug":"in-a-strange-city-lying-alone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/in-a-strange-city-lying-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"In a Strange City Lying Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always had a love\/hate relationship with the city of my birth, which is why I was so pleased to be a part of editor Luis Ortiz&#8217;s anthology project, <em>Why New Yorkers Smoke<\/em>,  published on September 11, 2011, the 10th anniversary of 9\/11. <\/p>\n<p>As Ortiz explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People not there when it all went down seem to have forgotten that it was like a great furnace igniting in hell. It was not much later when I came to realize that I would like to do a book of stories about fear and New Yorkers. As editor I found that unless I wanted a collection of tabloid stories the only way to approach this theme was by embracing fantastika, that is fantasy, horror and science fiction. I was lucky in being able to get some of the top writers working in these genres, many of them New Yorkers themselves, to answer the question: &#8220;What is there to fear in New York City?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to see my answer to that question&#8212;as well as the answers of Carol EMshwiller, Barry Malzberg, Paul Di Filippo, and others&#8212;you can purchase a copy of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Why-Yorkers-Smoke-Luis-Ortiz\/dp\/1933065249\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always had a love\/hate relationship with the city of my birth, which is why I was so pleased to be a part of editor Luis Ortiz&#8217;s anthology project, Why New Yorkers Smoke, published on September 11, 2011, the 10th anniversary of 9\/11. As Ortiz explains: People not there when it all went down seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4143,"parent":13,"menu_order":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4142","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4142\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}