The New York Times hosts today’s post. In anticipation of my upcoming departure from Berlin, it’s hard not to look at my beloved city through rose-colored glasses. And on this Monday afternoon it is doing its utmost best to seduce me once again. I arrived here, almost five years ago, in the midst of a similar gracious snowfall as the one we’re witnessing now. My sentimentality led me to look up love letters or goodbye letters to Berlin, confessions of eternal romantics with a broken heart. My search didn’t lead to anything very fruitful yet, but as it turns out, and unsurprisingly so, New York has a long standing tradition of generations of writers who can’t leave New York without articulating their bittersweet goodbyes in a letter:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/fashion/From-Joan-Didion-to-Andrew-Sullivan-some-writers-leave-behind-letters-when-they-leave-new-york-city.html