New York Literary Lights [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

More than any mere guidebook, "New York Literary Lights" is an alphabetized collection of thumbnail biographies of writers, bars, buildings, bookstores, and neighborhoods. Reading in it is like taking a leisurely stroll through the history of writing in New York City alongside a brilliant local historian who is as droll and sharp as he is learned. "Russell Banks"" "More than any mere guidebook, New York Literary Lights is an alphabetized collection of thumbnail biographies of writers, bars, buildings, bookstores, and neighborhoods. Reading in it is like taking a leisurely stroll through the history of writing in New York City alongside a brilliant local historian who is as droll and sharp as he is learned." --Russell Banks "More than any mere guidebook, "New York Literary Lights" is an alphabetized collection of thumbnail biographies of writers, bars, buildings, bookstores, and neighborhoods. Reading in it is like taking a leisurely stroll through the history of writing in New York City alongside a brilliant local historian who is as droll and sharp as he is learned."--Russell Banks

William Corbett takes an expansive look at the ghosts, the landmarks, and the current denizens who make New York City so popular with the literary crowd. Ranging from Paul Auster to Zora Neale Hurston, from the Algonquin Round Table to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, from Edgar Allan Poe to the Beat Generation, Corbett takes us on a ride through the literary highlights of New York.