Writing New York
by mcotto
Posted to What Are You Reading? on 2002-03-29 00:08:00
A Literary Anthology. Philip Lopate, ed. Published by the Library of America. It’s a library book, I’ve renewed it twice. It contains short stories, non-fiction, essays, and novel excerpts by:
Irving, Thoreau, Dickens, Poe, Cooper, Fuller, Whitman, Melville, Twain, Crane, Millay, Cather, Keller, Fitzgerald, Wharton, Miller, Hughes, Hurston, Williams, Cheever, Baraka (Leroi Jones), Baldwin, Puzo, Ginsberg, Ellison, Burroughs, and Robert Moses (NYC’s master planner under Fiorello La Guardia)… to name about half the contributors. Find it!