Literary New York: A History and Guide [Illustrated with photographs and maps] (Paperback)

by Susan Edmiston (Author), Linda D. Cirino (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 409 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; 1st edition (1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 039524353X
• ISBN-13: 978-0395243534
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,806,997 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Guide with Maps & Photos!, August 19, 2008

By	BYF "Backyard Flix" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

From Inside Cover:

"From its colonial beginnings, New York has lured and nourished America's writers, served as subject and muse and played a crucial part in the development of the nation's literature.

'Literary New York' celebrates this unique interaction. It is both practical 'field guild' and peerless armchair entertainment for the lover of books. The authors take us on a fascinating pilgrimage - from the small downtown community of Washington Irving's day to the vast contemporary metropolis - into the days, works, homes and haunts of prominent writers and their circles.

On the foot or in the imagination, the reader can revisit the scenes of the Harlem Renaissance; the Brooklyn of Whitman, Hart Crane, Henry Miller and Norman Mailer; the Washington Square of Edith Wharton and Henry James; the East Village milieu of the Beats; the legendary Algonquin Round Table; the cosmopolitan hotels, Village bars and speakeasies, Lower East Side cafeterias and Harlem cabarets that were among the gathering places of the literati.

'Literary New York' is profusely illustrated with tour maps of each neighborhood and evocative photographs and further enriched by the remembrances and original commentary of Arthur Miller, W.H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, Alfred Kazin, Mary McCarthy and William Styron, among many others. New York here assumes a fresh dimension through association with its writers; their endless diversity of life and style mirrors the city, which was, and is, their mecca."