A Satirical Novel of Historic New York

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 MORE