Feral City: The New People

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You've been thinking about what you call the new people in this book for a long time. You had a blog where you were kind of documenting what was being replaced in New York, or what was starting to vanish. What was so fascinating reading Feral City was the new insights it brought to you in your own thinking about your own relationship with these new people. And I think that they are very much products of neoliberal capitalism.

Jeremiah Moss’s Feral City is much much more than a Covid memoir. In many ways it is a continuation of his desire to understand how and why New York city has changed, and if there is still a place for outsiders or if it now belongs to what he calls “the new people.” We walked around our Neighborhood together to talk about what the city was like during Covid time and what the phrase “go back to normal” really means.

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