The Good City
Writers Explore 21st-Century Boston

Edited by Emily Hiestand and Ande Zellman, in collaboration with Barbara Hindley (Beacon Press, 2004)

Presented as a gift from Boston to the delegates at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. A fresh portrait of the “Hub of the Universe” via essays by fifteen of Boston’s finest writers. 

"The good city is innovative and fun, it is prosperous, it strives for justice and sustainability, and above all, it is alive.” — from the Introduction by Paul Grogan, President of the Boston Foundation