Writing New York : a literary anthology

Originally published: New York : Library of America , 1998

Short biographies: at head of works

Sources & acknowledgments: p. 1025-1032

Contents(130 works): Washington Irving "From a history of New York", James Kirke Paulding "Stranger at home; or, a tour in Broadway", Frances Trollope "From domestic manners of the Americans", Fanny Kemble "From the journal", Philip Hone "From the dairy", Charles Dickens "From American notes for general circulation", Henry David Thoreau "Letters from Staten Island", Nathaniel Parker Willis "From open-air musings in the city", Edgar Allan Poe "From doings of Gotham", James Fenimore Cooper "From Satanstoe", Margaret Fuller "Our city charities", George G. Foster "The eating-houses", Grant Thorburn "From life and writings of Grant Thorburn", Walt Whitman "Crossing Brooklyn ferry", Walt Whitman "The old Bowery", Herman Melville "Bartleby, the scrivener", George Templeton Strong "From the diaries", Frederick Law Olmsted "Passages in the life of an unpractical man", Ernest Duvergier de Hauranne "From eight months in America", Fanny Fern "Tyrants of the shop", Mark Twain "Personals", James D. McCabe "Impostors"

Wong Chin Foo "Experience of a Chinese journalist", Jose Marti "New York under the snow", William Dean Howells "From a hazard of new fortunes", Jacob Riis "Down town back-alleys", Stephen Crane "Opium's varied dreams", Stephen Crane "Adventures of a novelist", Abraham Cahan "Drowned their sins", Abraham Cahan "Summer complaint : the annual strike", Theodore Dreiser "Whence the song", Theodore Dreiser "Vanished seaside resort", George W. Plunkitt and William L. Riordan "Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft", George W. Plunkitt and William L. Riordan "Curse of civil service reform", Maxim Gorky "Boredom", Henry James "From The American scene", O. Henry "Duel", James Weldon Johnson "From the autobiography of an ex-colored man", James Huneker "Lungs", Sara Teasdale "Gramercy park", Sara Teasdale "In the Metropolitan Museum", Sara Teasdale "Coney island", Sara Teasdale "Union square", Sara Teasdale "Broadway", Djuna Barnes "Come into the roof garden, Maud", Edna St. Vincent Millay "If I should learn"

Edna St. Vincent Millay "Recuerdo", Willa Cather "Coming, Aphrodite!", Claude McKay "The tropics in New York", Claude McKay "The harlem dancer", Marianne Moore "New York", Paul Rosenfeld "From port of New York", Edmund Wilson "The finale at the follies", Edmund Wilson "Thoughts on leaving New York for New Orleans", Vladimir Mayakovsky "Brooklyn Bridge", Hart Crane "To Brooklyn Bridge", Stephen Graham "Exterior street", Al Smith "From up to now", Helen Keller "I go adventuring", Paul Morand "From New York", Lincoln Steffens "The police", Lincoln Steffens "Roosevelt and reform", Dawn Powell "From The diaries", Louis-Ferdinand Céline "From journey to the end of the night", Christopher Morley "West end avenue", F. Scott Fitzgerald "My lost city", Edith Wharton "The background", Thomas Wolfe "Only the dead know Brooklyn", Damon Runyon "Sense of humor", Henry Miller "From black spring", Charles Reznikoff "Millinery district", Charles Reznikoff "From autobiography : New York"

Charles Reznikoff "From by the well of living and seeing", A.J. Liebling "Apology for breathing", Langston Hughes "When the Negro was in vogue", Elizabeth Bishop "Letter to N.Y.", John McNulty "Atheist hit by truck", John McNulty "Television helps, but not very much", Irwin Shaw "Welcome to the city", Mary McCarthy "The genial host", Zora Neale Hurston "Story in Harlem slang", Red Smith "As he seemed to a hick", David Schubert "It is sticky in the subway", Weldon Kees "Aspects of Robinson", Weldon Kees "Relating to Robinson", Bernard Malamud "The cost of living", Anzia Yezierska "From red ribbon on a white horse", William Carlos Williams "Hell's kitchen", Malcolm Cowley "The long furlough", Alfred Kazin "From a walker in the city", Joseph Mitchell "Up in the old hotel", William S. Burroughs "From junky", Bernardo Vega "From memoirs of Bernardo Vega", Frank O'Hara "A step away from them", Frank O'Hara "The day lady died", Frank O'Hara "Steps", Loren Eiseley "From the immense journey"

Robert Moses "Fiorello H. LaGuardia", John Cheever "Moving out", Ned Rorem "From the New York diary", Jane Jacobs "From the death and life of great American cities", James Merrill "An urban convalescence", Edwin Denby "The thirties", Edwin Denby "The climate", Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) "Minton's", George Oppen "Tourist eye", James Baldwin "From the fire next time", Harvey Shapiro "National cold storage company", Harvey Shapiro "47th street", Gay Talese "Panic in Brooklyn", Louis Auchincloss "The landmarker", Mario Puzo "From the fortunate Pilgrim", Tom Wolfe "The sunday kind of love", Joan Didion "Goodbye to all that", Isaac Bashevis Singer "The cafeteria", Jimmy Cannon "Lou Stillman", James Schuyler "February", James Schuyler "Dining out with Doug and Frank", Allen Ginsberg "Mugging", Allen Ginsberg "Fourth floor, dawn, up all night writing letters", Elizabeth Hardwick "From sleepless nights", Lewis Mumford "From sketches from life", Kate Simon "The movies and other schools"

Edward Rivera "From family installments", Joyce Johnson "From minor characters", Lionel Abel "From the intellectual follies", E.L. Doctorow "From world's fair", Ralph Ellison "New York, 1936", Oscar Hijuelos "From the mambo kings play songs of love", Vivian Gornick "From approaching eye level."