A portrait of the diverse literary cultures of New York from its beginnings as a Dutch colony to the present.

This collection explores the significance of New York City in children’s literature, stressing literary, political, and societal influences on writing for you

A vivid and provocative literary criticism of famous women writers from Virginia Woolf to Zelda Fitzgerald by a “gifted miniaturist biographer” (Joyce Carol

As early as the 1850s, gaslight tempted New Yorkers out into a burgeoning nightlife filled with shopping, dining, and dancing. Electricity later turned the city

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