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Jamaica Kincaid s collected writings for The New Yorker s Talk of the Town record her first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.

Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid s original writing for The New Yorker s Talk of the Town, composed during the time when she first arrived in the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid developed a unique voice, both in sync with William Shawn s tone for the quintessential elite magazine and (though unsigned) all her own–wonderingly alive to the ironies and screwball details that characterized her adopted city. The book also reflects Kincaid s development as a young writer–the newcomer who sensitively records her impressions here takes root to become one of our most respected authors.