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Alan Emmins sleeps on the streets of New York for 31 days. When writing a feature about murals painted under the pavements of Manhattan by homeless artists, Alan Emmins was challenged by a homeless dancer to try homelessness himself to understand what he was writing about. He took up the challenge. His diary about the people he met reveals an invisible world, full of surprises.
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Alan Emmins is a freelance journalist who was born in England in 1974. After living in New York he relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark. Alan’s texts and images have sold worldwide and cover a wide range of topics, from point of interest features to investigative journalism. His texts have been translated into many languages including Japanese, German, French, Spanish and Danish. Accompanied by his images his stories have appeared in GQ, The New York Post, Stern, Playboy, The New York Daily News, Politiken, Berlingske Tidene and others. Alan is currently working as the managing editor of the fiction magazine and website Spoiled Ink, but still continues to travel and write features for worldwide publication.
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Manhattan is saturated with news of the forthcoming Republican Convention, to be held at Madison Square Garden in August. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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Manhattan is saturated with news of the forthcoming Republican Convention, to be held at Madison Square Garden in August. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I will be recommending this book for a long time.,
By Peter W (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 31 Days: A New York Street Diary (Paperback)
I loved this book. 31 Days takes you deep into a world that you can otherwise only speculate about. Homelessness is one of those subjects that everybody has an opinion about, often, like myself, a wrong opinion. 31 Days allows you to see how it really is living on the streets. The subtle portraits of homeless life are dark in places, but the author handles the subject very well and seems to lighten the book up when needed by sharing a few of his own humorous experiences and showing his own naiveté and misconceptions without taking any thing away from the subject matter. In fact that is one of the best things about the book, the author doesn't tell you anything about homelessness, you experience it as he does, and he does have some incredible experiences with some incredible characters. I will be recommending this book for a long time.
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This review is from: 31 Days: A New York Street Diary (Paperback)
This is not the usual kind of book that i would choose off the shelf, but having been given a copy and knowing the writer himself i gave it a go. The style the book is written in, is very down to earth and after the 1st few pages I found it very hard to put down, wanting to know what was going to happen to him next. A very hard subject to write about as most of us do not want to hear about "the homeless" and in this case, the lengths the author went to, to research this book...well that took a lot of courage! A good book, which i have already recommended to several friends.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A realistic take on homelessness and NYC,
By Maddy McGee (NJ USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 31 Days: A New York Street Diary (Paperback)
I really enjoyed 31 Days. It captures a realistic side to NYC thanyou see when rushing about in the city. It humanizes an issue that most people either don't want to think about or have misconceptions of and it does it without parading other peoples misery. At times the book was very funny, at others sad, but never dull. I recommend this book to everybody who lives in New York, or just loves New York, or who just wants a great book to read.
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