Remarkable, Unspeakable New York

Download or read book Remarkable, Unspeakable New York written by Shaun O'Connell and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1997-08-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Old New York to the Harlem Renaissance, the Algonquin Round Table to the New York Intellectuals, the beginning of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth, Remarkable, Unspeakable New York offers a sweeping new view of New York's place in the American literary imagination. James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, E. L. Doctorow, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Oscar Hijuelos, Langston Hughes, Washington Irving, Henry James, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Parker, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, and Tom Wolfe are among the many writers whose literary legacies are brought to life.