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

Name: Writing New York: a Literary Anthology A Library of America Special Publication
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ISBN: 9781598530216

ISBN-10: 1598530216

ISBN-13: 9781598530216

Edition: 10th 2008

Authors: Phillip Lopate, Phillip Lopate

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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, humoristsin unexpected and dazzling ways the writers in this volume take on the challenge of capturing New Yorks 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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 10th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Library of America, The
Publication date: 1/31/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 1050
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.948
Language: English

Phillip Lopate is a professor at Columbia University, where he directs the graduate nonfiction program.