Writing New York: A Literary Anthology: A Library of America Special Publication

ISBN: 1598530216

Author: Lopate, Phillip

Condition: Used

"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 of 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. This paperback edition includes an expanded introduction and additional selections be Don DeLillo, Colson Whitehead, and Vijay Seshadri, bringing the story up to the present.