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  • Paperback: 1056 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books; Reprint edition (26 April 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0671042351
  • ISBN-13: 978-0671042356
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 14.6 x 4.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,805,118 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"The New York Times Critic's Notebook"

The likes of Ralph Ellison, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Mario Puzo, Mary McCarthy, and Al Smith [are] among the many contributors to these rich pages.



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Presents a literary portrait of the city of New York through the eyes of more than a hundred writers, from Washington Irving to Oscar Hijuelos.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A classic collection of literary and historical New York, 4 Feb 1999
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This review is from: Writing New York (Library of America) (Hardcover)
This anthology of fiction and memoirs about America's first city offers as vivid a picture of New York City life and attitudes as any history book. Open the book at random, and there is something worth reading: George Templeton Strong wondering in his diary: "Is it the doom of all men in this century to be weighed down with the incumbrance of a desire to make money and save money, all their days?" (in 1852!); Stephen Crane writing of a man's moral dilemma over the false arrest of a possible prostitute; Ralph Ellison noting in "New York, 1936" that: "in the hustle and bustle of that most theatrical of American cities, one was accepted on the basis of what one appeared to be."

Then there's the fiction and the anthropological excerpts which offer pleasures of their own. One of Damon Runyon's stories about the "Guys and Dolls" of Broadway is here, a tougher story than one would expect from him. A selection from Oscar Hijuelos' "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" is here as well. Joseph Mitchell's "Up in the Old Hotel," an observation piece written for The New Yorker and Zora Neale Hurston's "Story in Harlem Slang."

"Writing New York" is a convivial convention, probably the only gathering of New York wits and writers and reporters we're likely to see this side of heaven. Reading it alongside "Gotham" from Oxford University Press fleshes out a portrait of a great city that may be down at times, but can never be counted out.

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4.0 out of 5 stars an excellent variety of writing styles, 13 Dec 1998
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This review is from: Writing New York (Library of America) (Hardcover)
i loved this book.
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2.0 out of 5 stars I give it two stars but i may just be in a generous mood, 23 Nov 1998
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This review is from: Writing New York (Library of America) (Hardcover)
I can't believe someone acttually wrote this. I can't imagine it was proofread carefully. I found countless mistakes in grammer as well as usage.
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