In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, some of New York City's leading authors of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose reflect on the event in vivid, creative works by Paul Auster, Edwidge Danticat, Phillip Lopate, Susan Wheeler, Vivian Gornick, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and others. Reprint.

Celebrating the rich diversity of Harlem life and culture, from the early twentieth century to the present day, a literary anthology features a compilation of essays, short stories, and novel excerpts.

Excerpts from the works of such writers as Tom Wolfe, Jack Kerouac, Mark Twain, James Baldwin, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and others, along with dozens of archival photographs and illustrations, capture the social, cultural, ethnic, literary, economic, and political history of New York City's northernmost borough, from the seventeenth century to the present. Reprint.

Some of the world's finest writers capture the essence of Brooklyn in a collection of short stories, poems, and essays by Carson McCullers, Bernard Malamud, Truman Capote, William Styron, Betty Smith, and others. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: In this important new anthology, Venetria K. Patton and Maureen Honey bring together a comprehensive selection of texts from the Harlem Renaissance-a key period in the literary and cultural history of the United States. The collection revolutionizes our way of viewing this era, since it redresses the ongoing emphasis on the male writers of this time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An eclectic and entertaining historical celebration of New York City includes an outstanding array of literary writings and incisive essays that chronicle the city from its early seventeenth-century origins to the September 11th terrorist attack and its aftermath, in works by politicians, immigrants, social critics, city planners, journalists, authors, and historians. (History)

Product Description: Twenty-four contemporary writers reflect on life in New York City's biggest underdog, the "forgotten borough" of Queens.

Featuring contributions from Henry James, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Day, Will Durant, Allen Ginsberg, and Bob Dylan, a brilliant anthology captures the infinite facades of the Village by presenting memoirs, articles, essays, poems, short stories, and excerpts from novels set in the West Village or penned by a Villager.

In the cutting-edge manner and method of Verses that Hurt and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet's Café, this anthology gathers recent work by many of New York City's most daring young poets. Contributors to this eclectic, exhilarating collection include Jordan Davis, Maggie Estep, Mimi Goese, Kenneth Goldsmith, Sharon Mesmer, Lee Ranaldo, Prageeta Sharma, Mac Wellman, and others.

Product Description: Funny, haunting, touching and harrowing work from NYC's most vibrant yet unheard populations.

The best nonfiction writing ever presented onstage at New York City's famous KGB Bar includes the work of Jimmy Breslin, Susan Orlean, Budd Schulberg, Natalie Angier, Jack Newfield, Joyce Carol Oates, Luc Sante, Steve Earle, and many others. Original.

Product Description: The KGB Bar Reading Series, originally conceived as a small literary series in a funky bar in New York City's East Village, has grown into a showcase for daring, lively writing that draws a response from listeners -- and readers -- and is quickly earning national recognition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A selection of writings from 'The Messenger,' a magazine of the Harlem Renaissance which reflected socialist ideology, includes works by Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. (view table of contents)

A remarkable array of paintings, prints, and photographs from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is highlighted by poems, fiction excerpts, reminiscences, and letters from O. Henry, E. B. White, Toni Morrison, E. L Doctorow, and other notable authors, in an evocative celebration of New York City.

Product Description: The magazine that is the city that is the worldJust in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories that captured the spectacle, the turbulence, and the cultural realignments of the past four decades...read more

The history of Asian-Americans in the United States has traditionally been focused on the West Coast and Hawaii; yet, the community on the East Coast, particularly New York City, has been steadily growing since the first three Chinese students came to the city in 1847. A collection of fiction, poetry, essays, and art, The NuyorAsian Anthology maps Asian American life in New York City, beginning with works by poet Jose Garcia Villa in the 1930s and the birth of the Asian-American literary and political movement in the 1970s. The collection also explores the more contemporary voices of Pico Iyer, Bharati Mukherjee, Jessica Hagedorn, Kimiko Hahn, Vijay Seshadri, Wang Ping, and many others. Ranging in age from 16 to 87, more than sixty writers and artists look at love and loss, work and history, identity and sexuality, loneliness and dislocation, giving a closer look at the most diverse ethnic community in the United States. Their language is raw and experimental, yet immediately classic. The NuyorAsian Anthology examines the character of New York City itself, its intense dynamic, and its residents' attempts to decipher its ever elusive meanings. New York has been the home and inspiration of many of the most important artists of our time-including some of our most extraordinary Asian-American voices. Like the city about which they are written, these are stories, poems, and essays that stare back: unencumbered, longing, distanced, and moving. (view table of contents)

An extraordinary collection of short fiction, poetry, essays, and plays from the Urban League's Opportunity magazine celebrates the contributions of the Harlem Renaissance in works by Zora Neale Hurston, Dorothy West, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen, among others. Original. 12,500 first printing.

A multicultural collection of stories, poems, essays, drama, and photographs by past and current residents of Queens, New York. (view table of contents)

A multicultural collection of stories, poems, essays, drama, and photographs by past and current residents of Queens, New York. (view table of contents)