Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Library of America)

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xxii, 1050 pp. ""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 o f 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." Show more