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: Features essays, memoirs, poetry, and fiction from a select group of authors who wrote during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s.

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)

Collects poetry and prose works by such authors as Octavio Paz, Joyce Carol Oates, Gay Talese, and William Carlos Williams to accompany the compiler's paintings of bridges (view table of contents)

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)

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.

Arguing that the Harlem Renaissance actually lasted much longer than previously portrayed, the author collects more than fifty pieces written for the WPA Writer's Project capturing the voices of war veterans, Pullman porters, prostitutes, preachers, and the first American to plant a flag on the North Pole. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Yorkville Anthology brings to print in one volume, for the first time, the works of an impressive new school of authors and poets that has emerged in New York. Without submitting to trendiness or shying away from raw content, these new writers bring a high velocity combination of technical achievement and a bold exploration of the shared human experience to each page...read more

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)

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.

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.

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: 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)

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 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.

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)

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.

More than one hundred and twenty-five images and more than eighty texts--including flyers, zines, newsprint weeklies, book covers, and more--capture the spontaneity of New York's downtown literary scene between 1974 and 1992, offering profiles of Spalding Gray, Lynne Tillman, Eric Bogosian, Kathy Acker, Miguel Pi¤ero, and other writers. Simultaneous.