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By Christine Wade | Monday,
May 25, 2015 - Off the Shelf
New York is an iconic city, ever hip and ever changing, with an
accompanying literature that expresses its grit and glamour. Lists of iconic
New York novels abound, compiled because they depict the marrow of the
metropolis in a particular swath of time.
Writers contributing to a New York
literature are many and various: they include Melville, James, and Wharton in
the nineteenth century and Fitzgerald, Baldwin, and McCarthy in the
twentieth.
You can compile your own list for the twenty-first. We’re only fifteen
years in, but you will still have too many choices for writers that spin New
York City as a central character. But where did it all begin?... READ
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