Letterbox: Bookish & Filmish

Edition 7: New York City, Pandemic Lockdowns and the Freedom of Imagination

I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps.

If I submitted a screenplay with the events of my past month as its plot points, the story-editor would write ‘strains credulity’ across the top in red ink.

But when I had an apartment in Brooklyn and was adjusting to the rhythms of those strange zoo animals called native New Yorkers, I learned the wisdom in …