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Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition)

by Phillip Lopate (Editor)

Other authors: Louis Auchincloss (Contributor), James Baldwin (Contributor), Elizabeth Bishop (Contributor), William S. Burroughs (Contributor), Willa Cather (Contributor)53 more, John Cheever (Contributor), James Fenimore Cooper (Contributor), Stephen Crane (Contributor), Charles Dickens (Contributor), Joan Didion (Contributor), E. L. Doctorow (Contributor), Theodore Dreiser (Contributor), Loren Eiseley (Contributor), Ralph Ellison (Contributor), F. Scott Fitzgerald (Contributor), Margaret Fuller (Contributor), Allen Ginsberg (Contributor), Maxim Gorky (Contributor), Elizabeth Hardwick (Contributor), O. Henry (Contributor), Oscar Hijuelos (Contributor), William Dean Howells (Contributor), Langston Hughes (Contributor), Zora Neale Hurston (Contributor), Washington Irving (Contributor), Henry James (Contributor), Alfred Kazin (Contributor), Helen Keller (Contributor), A. J. Liebling (Contributor), Bernard Malamud (Contributor), Jose Marti (Contributor), Mary McCarthy (Contributor), Herman Melville (Contributor), Edna St. Vincent Millay (Contributor), Henry Miller (Contributor), Joseph Mitchell (Contributor), Marianne Moore (Contributor), Christopher Morley (Contributor), Frank O'Hara (Contributor), Frederick Law Olmsted (Contributor), Edgar Allan Poe (Contributor), Dawn Powell (Contributor), Mario Puzo (Contributor), Jacob Riis (Contributor), Damon Runyon (Contributor), Irwin Shaw (Contributor), Isaac Bashevis Singer (Contributor), Lincoln Steffens (Contributor), Gay Talese (Contributor), Sara Teasdale (Contributor), Henry David Thoreau (Contributor), Mark Twain (Contributor), Edith Wharton (Contributor), Walt Whitman (Contributor), William Carlos Williams (Contributor), Edmund Wilson (Contributor), Thomas Wolfe (Contributor), Tom Wolfe (Contributor)

Series: Library of America Special Anthologies (1.2)

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'Few cities,? writes Phillip Lopate in his introduction to this historic anthology, ?have inspired as much great writing as New York.' Here Lopate and The Library of America present a sweeping literary portrait of the city as seen through the eyes of over a hundred writers. Residents and tourists, novelists and poets, architects, politicians, social reformers, naturalists, humorists'in unexpected and dazzling ways the writers in this volume take on the challenge of capturing New York's enduring spirit, its constantly changing public spectacle, its gossip, amusements, hard-luck stories, and tragedies. This paperback edition includes an expanded introduction and additional selections be Don DeLillo, Colson Whitehead, and Vijay Seshadri, bringing the story up to the present.… (more)
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Literature written for and about New York is organized in chronological order in Writing New York: a Literary Anthology. In the diary of Philip Hone you will read about a child abandoned on his doorstep. Henry David Thoreau goes wandering around Staten Island looking for nature. You will read the day-long observations of Nathaniel Parker Willis. Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener has a place. Fanny Fern, also known as Sara Payson Willis, contributes as the first woman newspaper columnist in the United States. You'll learn that O. Henry started writing fiction in prison. James Huneker will tell you about the New York public urban parks: Battery, Corlears, Gramercy, Bronx, and Central, to name a few. Charles Reznikoff would walk twenty miles a day and by default find interesting material for his poetry. E.B. White chimes in. William Carlos Williams was called the "bard of Rutherford, New Jersey", but he wrote about New York City with such eloquence. You will read a fraction of a biography of LaGuardia by Robert Moses and hear from Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Ralph Ellison, and so many more. ( )
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1st ed. (1998): Writing New York : a literary anthology / Phillip Lopate, editor; Expanded ed., 10th anniversary ed. (2008): Writing New York : a literary anthology / Phillip Lopate, editor.

Please distinguish between the original 1998 publication of this Library of America anthology and this 2008 Expanded, 10th-Anniversary Edition (ISBN 9781598530216 / 1598530216), the contents of which are not the same. Without limitation, the 2008 edition includes material about 9/11. Thank you.
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'Few cities,? writes Phillip Lopate in his introduction to this historic anthology, ?have inspired as much great writing as New York.' Here Lopate and The Library of America present a sweeping literary portrait of the city as seen through the eyes of over a hundred writers. Residents and tourists, novelists and poets, architects, politicians, social reformers, naturalists, humorists'in unexpected and dazzling ways the writers in this volume take on the challenge of capturing New York's enduring spirit, its constantly changing public spectacle, its gossip, amusements, hard-luck stories, and tragedies. This paperback edition includes an expanded introduction and additional selections be Don DeLillo, Colson Whitehead, and Vijay Seshadri, bringing the story up to the present.

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Contains:
  • Introduction
  • From A History of New York / Washington Irving
  • From The Journal / Fanny Kemble
  • From Satanstoe / James Fennimore Cooper
  • Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville
  • Personals / Mark Twain
  • Impostors / James D. McCabe
  • Drowned Their Sins / Abraham Cahan
  • Bordom / Maxim Gorky
  • Duel / O. Henry
  • Lungs / James Huneker
  • If I Should Learn / Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Coming, Aphrodite! / Willa Cather
  • New York / Marianne Moore
  • Police / Lincoln Steffens
  • Sense of Humor / Damon Runyon
  • Millinery District / Charles Reznikoff
  • Welcome to the City / Irwin Shaw
  • Genial Host / Mary McCarthy
  • Hell's Kitchen / William Carlos Williams
  • Steps / Frank O'Hara
  • Moving Out / John Cheever
  • Climate / Edwin Denby
  • Tourist Eye / George Oppen
  • Landmarker / Louis Auchincloss
  • Cafeteria / Isaas Bashevis Singer
  • Mugging / Allen Ginsburg
  • From World's Fair / E.L. Doctorow
  • From The Colossus of New York / Colson Whitehead
  • North of Manhattan / Vijay Sishadri
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