A sweeping history of New York's place in the American literary imagination, featuring James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Hijuelos, Dorothy Parker, and many other writers.
A sweeping history of New York's place in the American literary imagination, featuring James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Hijuelos...
"New England was founded consciously, and in no fit of absence of mind," observed historian Samuel Eliot Morison on the establishment of the Bay Colony in 1630 on the narrow, mountainous Shawmut peninsula of what became Massachusetts. That self-conscious presence of mind has endured for four centuries. Boston has been shaped and sustained by observation, imagination, and interpretation. As a result, the evolving vision of Boston has yielded a compelling literary record.
In this wide-ranging anthology, Shaun O'Connell includes a generous sampling of those who have recorded, revised, and...
"New England was founded consciously, and in no fit of absence of mind," observed historian Samuel Eliot Morison on the establishment of the Bay Co...
