| Description |
xxii, 1050 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1043-1050). |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 (Leroi Jones) -- 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. |
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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. |
| Subject |
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Literary collections.
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American prose literature -- New York (State) -- New York.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Lopate, Phillip, 1943-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Writing New York. New York : Library of America : Distributed in the United States by Penguin Putnam, Inc., c1998 (OCoLC)645894978 |
| ISBN |
1883011620 |
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9781883011628 |
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