Writing New York : a literary anthology / Phillip Lopate, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lopate, Phillip, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--New York (State)--New York--Literary collections.

City and town life.

American prose literature.

New York (State)--New York.

American prose literature--New York (State)--New York.

New York (N.Y.)--Literary collections.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Physical Description:

xxii, 1050 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Library of America, [1998]

Summary:

In wholly original and startling ways, the authors of this inspired volume capture New York's spirit -- on the streets and in the subways, in the shops, hotels, and "eating houses", at riots, in newspapers, on bridges and in parks, in sweat shops, and in some of its denizens' diaries.

An expansive range of more than one hundred brilliant voices includes Mary McCarthy, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Djuna Barnes, Langston Hughes, Henry James, Zora Neale Hurston, Marianne Moore, Gay Talese, E.B. White, Allen Ginsberg, O.Henry, Alfred Kazin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Carlos Williams, and John Cheever, among many, many others.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1043-1050).

ISBN:

1883011620

OCLC:

38930616