title: The New Yorker Stories
author:  Ann Beattie 
description: Beattie captures the milieu perfectly An in-depth study of a subculture and a staggering almanac of emotions.<i><b>Entertainment Weekly</b></i><br /><br />The collection is not so much a museum of past work as a dynamic, entertaining, 32-year exploration of the form-a reminder that, in the hands of a career virtuoso, the short story is very much alive.<b>Nathan Heller, <i>Slate</i></b>
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  _Nebula Award-nominated author Maria Dahvana Headley has always loved Damon
  Runyon's stylized faux-reporting on New York City. This is her version of a
  Runyon tale—this one dealing with the architectural guys and dolls of New York
  City—and a valentine to all the beautiful buildings she knows._
  
  
  __It's Valentine's Day, 1938, and the Chrysler Building's tired of waiting on
  the corner of Forty-second and Lex for a certain edifice to notice her. Here's
  the story of what might happen if two of New York's greatest creations met on
  a day built for romance.__
  
  
  ___This short story was acquired and edited by editor[Liz
  Gorinsky](https://www.tor.com/tags/edited%20by%20Liz%20Gorinsky).___
  
  
  
  
  
  On a particular snowy Monday in February, at 5:02 p.m., I’m sixty-six flights
  above the corner of Lexington Avenue and For