Bill Hayes

The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction (2013-14), Bill Hayes is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and the author of the books The Anatomist, Five Quarts, and Sleep Demons. He is now at work on two books, both forthcoming from Bloomsbury: Sweat: A History of Exercise and Insomniac City, a collection of essays about New York.

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Subway Lifer: The Kindness of Strangers

By Bill Hayes

February 10, 2014 | Essays

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 A series about living in New York.

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Subway Lifer: A Fisherman on the Subway

By Bill Hayes

November 12, 2013 | Memoir

A series about living in New York.

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Subway Lifer: The Thank-You Man

By Bill Hayes

October 29, 2013 | Memoir

A series about living in New York.

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Subway Lifer

By Bill Hayes

October 15, 2013 | Memoir

A series about living in New York.

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Why Iceland

By Bill Hayes

April 26, 2013 | Essays

  I’ve just returned from my third trip to Iceland in a year. When this comes up in conversation, I am inevitably and understandably asked why—what takes me there? It’s not business; yet vacation doesn’t seem the right word either. The [...]

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