80

"Whit Johnston's debut novel is a New York story told through the fictional diary entries of one Mary Louise Weeks (ML for short), a struggling photographer and, inadvertently, a brilliant social chronicler. Tinged with a certain wistfulness for a Manhattan long since lost, '80 is a nuanced reminder of how much we a culture have changed since those final months leading up to Reagan's "Morning in America."" "Careening from one photo session to the next, ML scours the city from the depths of the Bowery to the heights of uptown penthouses; from a midtown Diane Arbus exhibit to West Village S&M…