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Writing New York : a literary anthology
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- Creator
- Phillip Lopate, editor
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Library of America, [1998]
- ©1998
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 1050 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781883011628, 1883011620
- OCLC
- ocm38930616
- 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 Dairy / 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 / Walt Whitman -- The Old Bowery / Walt Whitman -- Bartleby, the Scrivener / Herman Melville -- from The Diaries / George Templeton Strong -- Passage 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 -- Impostors / James D. McCabe -- Experience of a Chinese Journalist / Wong Chin Foo -- New York Under the Snow / Jose Marti -- from A Hazard of New Fortunes / William Dean Howells -- The Down Town Back-Alleys / Jacob Riis -- Opium's Varied Dreams / Stephen Crane -- Adventures of a Novelist / Stephen Crane -- Drowned Their Sins / Abraham Cahan -- Summer Complaint: The Annual Strike / Abraham Cahan -- Whence the Song / Theodore Dreiser -- A Vanished Seaside Resort / Theodore Dreiser -- Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft / George W. Plunkitt and William L. Riordan -- 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 / Sara Teasdale -- In the Metropolitan Museum / Sara Teasdale -- Coney Island / Sara Teasdale -- Union Square / Sara Teasdale -- Broadway / Sara Teasdale -- "Come Into the Roof Garden, Maud" / Djuna Barnes -- If I should learn / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Coming, Aphrodite! / Willa Cather -- The Tropics in New York / Claude McKay -- The Harlem Dancer / Claude McKay -- New York / Marianne Moore -- from Port of New York / Paul Rosenfeld -- The Finale at the Follies / Edmund Wilson -- 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 / Lincoln Steffens -- Roosevelt and Reform / Lincoln Steffens -- from The Diaries / Dawn Powell -- from Journey to the End of the Night / Louis-Ferdinand Celine -- 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 / Charles Reznikoff -- from Autobiography: New York / Charles Reznikoff -- 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 / John McNulty -- 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 / Frank O'Hara -- The Day Lady Died / Frank O'Hara -- 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 / Edwin Denby -- 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 / Harvey Shapiro -- 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 / James Schuyler -- Dining Out with Doug and Frank / James Schuyler -- Mugging / Allen Ginsberg -- 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 Cornick