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A compilation of original nonfiction pieces pay tribute to Brooklyn in twenty essays that capture the unique quality, character, and diversity of the borough by Katie Roiphe, Susan Choi, Jonathan Lethem, Jennifer Egan, Emily Barton, Michael Thomas, Alexandra Styron, John Burnham Schwartz, and other notable authors. Original.

More than one hundred and twenty-five images and more than eighty texts--including flyers, zines, newsprint weeklies, book covers, and more--capture the spontaneity of New York's downtown literary scene between 1974 and 1992, offering profiles of Spalding Gray, Lynne Tillman, Eric Bogosian, Kathy Acker, Miguel Pi¤ero, and other writers. Simultaneous.

The author chronicles a hitherto unknown chapter in both literary history and communal living--the experiment in communalism undertaken by Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Jane and Paul Bowles. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Product Description: In Tolerable Entertainment, Herman Melville's life and literary work serve as windows on the tumultuous world of antebellum New York City. Charting Melville's writings from Typee (1846) to Pierre (1852) as responses to his experience of living in the city, this book reveals the dramatic shifts in American life occurring at the time...read more

Provides a picture-book autobiography of the author's childhood--a time that was very different than what children experience today. Reprint.

Explores New York's literary history and discusses the significant events, locations, and writers who have given the city its literary identity.

A history of Manhattan from the perspective of a forty-year journalist conveys the author's intimate knowledge of the region's neighborhoods and people, from former 1920s speakeasies and the alleyways of the meat-packing district to the streets of Greenwich Village and the cobblestones of South Street Seaport. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

Product Description:     Nearly two million Jewish men, women, and children emigrated from Eastern Europe between 1882 and 1924 and settled in, or passed through, the Lower East Side of New York City. Sanford Sternlicht tells the story of his own childhood in this vibrant neighborhood and puts it within the context of fourteen early twentieth-century East Side writers...read more

From the streets of Manhattan to Paris, a poignant memoir explains a series of ingenious and farfetched attempts to survive on next to no money, showing both the humor and desperation of being a 'have not.' Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Examines how the author's life reflected the history of New York City and the publications that shaped him, describing the eye problem that confined him to a dark room at a young age, his family's flight from Antwerp after the Nazi invasion, and his personal relationship with key works of literature. 15,000 first printing.

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A humorous collection of essays tackles life in the city, chronicling the author's exploration of Manhattan's often seedy underworldas he tries out to become a model for the Hair Club for Men, awaits a delayed puberty, and copes with the angst of modern life. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Combining literary biography with astute reporting and moral insight, David Laskin shows how sex, politics, and art affected relationships among the Partisan Review writers: Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt, Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, and Diana Trilling...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In the teens and twenties, New York was home to a rich variety of literary subcultures. Within these intermingled worlds, gender lines and other boundaries were crossed in ways that were hardly imaginable in previous decades. Among the bohemians of Greenwich Village, the sophisticates of the Algonquin Round Table, and the literati of the Harlem Renaissance, certain women found fresh, powerful voices through which to speak and write. Enda St. Vincent Millay and Dorothy Parker are now best remembered for their colorful lives; Genevieve Taggard, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Helene Johnson are hardly remembered at all. Yet each made a serious literary contribution to the meaning of modern femininity, relationship, and selfhood. Making Love Modern uncovers the deep historical sensitivity and interest in these women's love poetry. Placing their work in the context of subcultures nested within national culture, Nina Miller explores the tensions that make this literature so rewarding for contemporary readers. A poetry of intimate expression, it also functioned powerfully as public assertion. The writers themselves were high-profile embodiments of femininity, the local representatives of New Womanhood within their male-centered subcultural worlds. This book captures the literary lives of these woman as well as the complex subcultures they inhabited--Harlem, the Village, and glamorous midtown Manhattan. (view table of contents)

Product Description: From Old New York to the Harlem Renaissance, the Algonquin Round Table to the New York Intellectuals, the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, Remarkable, Unspeakable New York offers a sweeping new view of New York's place in the American literary imagination...read more