by Phillip Lopate · Washington Square Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780671042356
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«Writing New York» is the literary anthology edited by Phillip Lopate, published by Washington Square Press in paperback (1056 pages, in English).
It brings together more than a hundred voices portraying New York over two centuries, from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James to contemporary chroniclers and novelists. Fiction, journalism, poetry and memoirs combine in a collective portrait of urban life, its public spectacles, rumours and tragedies.
It received the New York City Book Award in 1998. This 2000 edition expands the volume with texts by Don DeLillo, Colson Whitehead and Vijay Seshadri.
For readers interested in New York, urban chronicle and American literature.
Phillip Lopate is an American essayist, film critic, fiction writer, and poet.
