ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 6月1日 15時14分

Most people will say that a city starts at its outskirts. You’ll probably have to fight your way through a ring of big box architecture and layers of residential sprawl, but eventually you’ll find the heart of it. “But I came to Stockton, California, a different way,” writes Karen Schoemer in @nytimestravel. “For me, it will always be a place that I first entered through the pages of a book.” Stockton inspired Leonard Gardner’s acclaimed 1969 novel, “Fat City.” The real #Stockton — at the northern end of California’s Central Valley — is nice enough. The Stockton of “Fat City,” meanwhile, is lurid and legendary. “It’s not pretty, yet somehow, through the honesty of its grime and the earnest way its inhabitants try to scrape and spar their way out of it, it becomes beautiful,” Karen writes. She goes on: “‘Fat City’ is an Edward Hopper painting, a Robert Frank photograph, a midnight-choir Tom Waits operetta plunked on an out-of-tune piano.” She’d never particularly wanted to go to #Stockton, but after she read the book, she “really, really wanted to go” to “Fat City.” Leonard Gardner, who was born there 83 years ago, agreed to accompany her. The photographer @jasonhenry photographed the author in what once was the Lido Hotel ballroom. Visit the link in our profile to read more about their visit.

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