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Writing New York: A Literary Anthology

Writing New York: A Literary Anthology

David Schubert
4.5/5 ( ratings)
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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.

from A history of New York / Washington Irving --
The stranger at home, or, A tour in Broadway / James Kirke Paulding --
from Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope --
from The journal / Fanny Kemble --
from The diary / Philip Hone --
from American notes for general circulation / Charles Dickens --
Letters from Staten Island / Henry David Thoreau --
from Open-air musings in the city / Nathaniel Parker Willis --
from Doings of Gotham / Edgar Allan Poe --
from Satanstoe / James Fenimore Cooper --
Our city charities / Margaret Fuller --
The eating-houses / George G. Foster --
from Life and writings of Grant Thorburn / Grant Thorburn --
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; The old Bowery / Walt Whitman --
Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville --
from The diaries / George Templeton Strong --
Passages in the life of an unpractical man / Frederick Law Olmsted --
from Eight months in America / Ernest Duvergier De Hauranne --
Tyrants of the shop / Fanny Fern --
Personals / Mark Twain --
Imposters / James D. McCabe --
Experience of a Chinese journalist / Wong Chin Foo --
New York under the snow / José Martí --
from A hazard of new fortunes / William Dean Howells --
The down town back-alleys / Jacob Riis. Opium's varied dreams ; Adventures of a novelist / Stephen Crane --
Drowned their sins ; Summer complaint : the annual strike / Abraham Cahan --
Whence the song ; A vanished seaside resort / Theodore Dreiser --
Honest graft and dishonest graft ; The curse of civil service reform / George W. Plunkitt and William L. Riordan --
Boredom / Maxim Gorky --
from The American scene / Henry James --
The duel / O. Henry --
from The autobiography of an ex-colored man / James Weldon Johnson --
The lungs / James Huneker --
Gramercy Park ; In the Metropolitan Museum ; Coney Island ; Union Square ; Broadway / Sara Teasdale --
"Come into the roof garden, Maud" / Djuna Barnes --
If I should learn ; Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Coming, Aphrodite! / Willa Cather --
The tropics in New York ; The Harlem dancer / Claude McKay --
New York / Marianne Moore --
from Port of New York / Paul Rosenfeld --
The finale at the follies ; Thoughts on leaving New York for New Orleans / Edmund Wilson --
Brooklyn Bridge / Vladimir Mayakovsky --
To Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane --
Exterior Street / Stephen Graham --
from Up to now / Al Smith --
I go adventuring / Helen Keller --
from New York / Paul Morand. The police ; Roosevelt and reform / Lincoln Steffens --
from The diaries / Dawn Powell --
from Journey to the end of night / Louis-Ferdinand Céline --
West End Avenue / Christopher Morley --
My lost city / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
The background / Edith Wharton --
Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe --
Sense of humor / Damon Runyon --
from Black spring / Henry Miller --
Millinery district ; from Autobiography : New York ; from By the well of living and seeing / Charles Reznikoff --
Apology for breathing / A.J. Liebling --
When the Negro was in vogue / Langston Hughes --
Letter to N.Y. / Elizabeth Bishop --
Atheist hit by truck ; The television helps, but not very much / John McNulty --
Welcome to the city / Irwin Shaw --
The genial host / Mary McCarthy --
Story in Harlem slang / Zora Neale Hurston --
As he seemed to a hick / Red Smith --
It is sticky in the subway / David Schubert --
Aspects of Robinson / Weldon Kees --
Here is New York / E.B. White --
The cost of living / Bernard Malamud --
from Red ribbon on a white horse / Anzia Yezierska --
Hell's Kitchen / William Carlos Williams --
The long furlough / Malcolm Cowley. from A walker in the city / Alfred Kazin --
Up in the old hotel / Joseph Mitchell --
from Junky / William S. Burroughs --
from Memoirs of Bernardo Vega / Bernardo Vega --
A step away from them ; The day lady died ; Steps / Frank O'Hara --
from The immense journey / Loren Eiseley --
Fiorello H. LaGuardia / Robert Moses --
Moving out / John Cheever --
from The New York diary / Ned Rorem --
from The death and life of great American cities / Jane Jacobs --
An urban convalescence / James Merrill --
The thirties ; The climate / Edwin Denby --
Minton's / Amiri Baraka --
Tourist eye / George Oppen --
from The fire next time / James Baldwin --
National Cold Storage Company ; 47th Street / Harvey Shapiro --
Panic in Brooklyn / Gay Talese --
The landmarker / Louis Auchincloss --
from The fortunate pilgrim / Mario Puzo --
A Sunday kind of love / Tom Wolfe --
Goodbye to all that / Joan Didion --
The cafeteria / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
Lou Stillman / Jimmy Cannon --
February ; Dining out with Doug and Frank / James Schuyler. Mugging ; Fourth floor, dawn, up all night writing letters / Allen Ginsberg --
from Sleepless nights / Elizabeth Hardwick --
from Sketches from life / Lewis Mumford --
The movies and other schools / Kate Simon --
from Family installments / Edward Rivera --
from Minor characters / Joyce Johnson --
from The intellectual follies / Lionel Abel --
from World's Fair / E.L. Doctorow --
New York, 1936 / Ralph Ellison --
from The mambo kings play songs of love / Oscar Hijuelos --
from Approaching eye level / Vivian Gornick
Language
English
Pages
1050
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Library of America
Release
October 01, 1998
ISBN
1883011620
ISBN 13
9781883011628

Writing New York: A Literary Anthology

David Schubert
4.5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
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.

from A history of New York / Washington Irving --
The stranger at home, or, A tour in Broadway / James Kirke Paulding --
from Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope --
from The journal / Fanny Kemble --
from The diary / Philip Hone --
from American notes for general circulation / Charles Dickens --
Letters from Staten Island / Henry David Thoreau --
from Open-air musings in the city / Nathaniel Parker Willis --
from Doings of Gotham / Edgar Allan Poe --
from Satanstoe / James Fenimore Cooper --
Our city charities / Margaret Fuller --
The eating-houses / George G. Foster --
from Life and writings of Grant Thorburn / Grant Thorburn --
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry ; The old Bowery / Walt Whitman --
Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville --
from The diaries / George Templeton Strong --
Passages in the life of an unpractical man / Frederick Law Olmsted --
from Eight months in America / Ernest Duvergier De Hauranne --
Tyrants of the shop / Fanny Fern --
Personals / Mark Twain --
Imposters / James D. McCabe --
Experience of a Chinese journalist / Wong Chin Foo --
New York under the snow / José Martí --
from A hazard of new fortunes / William Dean Howells --
The down town back-alleys / Jacob Riis. Opium's varied dreams ; Adventures of a novelist / Stephen Crane --
Drowned their sins ; Summer complaint : the annual strike / Abraham Cahan --
Whence the song ; A vanished seaside resort / Theodore Dreiser --
Honest graft and dishonest graft ; The curse of civil service reform / George W. Plunkitt and William L. Riordan --
Boredom / Maxim Gorky --
from The American scene / Henry James --
The duel / O. Henry --
from The autobiography of an ex-colored man / James Weldon Johnson --
The lungs / James Huneker --
Gramercy Park ; In the Metropolitan Museum ; Coney Island ; Union Square ; Broadway / Sara Teasdale --
"Come into the roof garden, Maud" / Djuna Barnes --
If I should learn ; Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
Coming, Aphrodite! / Willa Cather --
The tropics in New York ; The Harlem dancer / Claude McKay --
New York / Marianne Moore --
from Port of New York / Paul Rosenfeld --
The finale at the follies ; Thoughts on leaving New York for New Orleans / Edmund Wilson --
Brooklyn Bridge / Vladimir Mayakovsky --
To Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane --
Exterior Street / Stephen Graham --
from Up to now / Al Smith --
I go adventuring / Helen Keller --
from New York / Paul Morand. The police ; Roosevelt and reform / Lincoln Steffens --
from The diaries / Dawn Powell --
from Journey to the end of night / Louis-Ferdinand Céline --
West End Avenue / Christopher Morley --
My lost city / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
The background / Edith Wharton --
Only the dead know Brooklyn / Thomas Wolfe --
Sense of humor / Damon Runyon --
from Black spring / Henry Miller --
Millinery district ; from Autobiography : New York ; from By the well of living and seeing / Charles Reznikoff --
Apology for breathing / A.J. Liebling --
When the Negro was in vogue / Langston Hughes --
Letter to N.Y. / Elizabeth Bishop --
Atheist hit by truck ; The television helps, but not very much / John McNulty --
Welcome to the city / Irwin Shaw --
The genial host / Mary McCarthy --
Story in Harlem slang / Zora Neale Hurston --
As he seemed to a hick / Red Smith --
It is sticky in the subway / David Schubert --
Aspects of Robinson / Weldon Kees --
Here is New York / E.B. White --
The cost of living / Bernard Malamud --
from Red ribbon on a white horse / Anzia Yezierska --
Hell's Kitchen / William Carlos Williams --
The long furlough / Malcolm Cowley. from A walker in the city / Alfred Kazin --
Up in the old hotel / Joseph Mitchell --
from Junky / William S. Burroughs --
from Memoirs of Bernardo Vega / Bernardo Vega --
A step away from them ; The day lady died ; Steps / Frank O'Hara --
from The immense journey / Loren Eiseley --
Fiorello H. LaGuardia / Robert Moses --
Moving out / John Cheever --
from The New York diary / Ned Rorem --
from The death and life of great American cities / Jane Jacobs --
An urban convalescence / James Merrill --
The thirties ; The climate / Edwin Denby --
Minton's / Amiri Baraka --
Tourist eye / George Oppen --
from The fire next time / James Baldwin --
National Cold Storage Company ; 47th Street / Harvey Shapiro --
Panic in Brooklyn / Gay Talese --
The landmarker / Louis Auchincloss --
from The fortunate pilgrim / Mario Puzo --
A Sunday kind of love / Tom Wolfe --
Goodbye to all that / Joan Didion --
The cafeteria / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
Lou Stillman / Jimmy Cannon --
February ; Dining out with Doug and Frank / James Schuyler. Mugging ; Fourth floor, dawn, up all night writing letters / Allen Ginsberg --
from Sleepless nights / Elizabeth Hardwick --
from Sketches from life / Lewis Mumford --
The movies and other schools / Kate Simon --
from Family installments / Edward Rivera --
from Minor characters / Joyce Johnson --
from The intellectual follies / Lionel Abel --
from World's Fair / E.L. Doctorow --
New York, 1936 / Ralph Ellison --
from The mambo kings play songs of love / Oscar Hijuelos --
from Approaching eye level / Vivian Gornick
Language
English
Pages
1050
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Library of America
Release
October 01, 1998
ISBN
1883011620
ISBN 13
9781883011628

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