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(4.2) | None | '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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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions '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. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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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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