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Library of America (1998), Hardcover, 1050 pages
Description
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.
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LibraryThing member sandbergscott
Wonderfully entertaining; and educational.
LibraryThing member msteketee
a delicious amalgam of new york nuggets .. i purchased it at time it was released, most immediately, for e.b. white's 1949 essay "here is new york" . .. which begins
"On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy ... It can destroy
If that sequence sets your heart to fluttering .. this is the anthology for you.
"On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy ... It can destroy
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an individual or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky."If that sequence sets your heart to fluttering .. this is the anthology for you.
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LibraryThing member amelish
Since the Lopates have been occupying my mind lately...
Sonal, thanks for having this out on your side table :)
Sonal, thanks for having this out on your side table :)
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Awards
New York City Book Award (Fiction — 1998)
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Original publication date
1998
Physical description
1056 p.; 9.23 inches
ISBN
0671042351 / 9780671042356
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study
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