About the Author:
June Skinner Sawyers has held a variety of jobs in the publishing industry, working as an editor, freelance writer, and publicist. She is a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune and other publications. She is the author of Celtic Music: A Complete Guide and editor of The Road North: 300 Years of Classic Scottish Travel Writing. She lives in Chicago.
Review:
A charming and nostalgic collection for those with a place in their heart for our own Rive Gauche. (Kirkus Reviews)
The multifarious but distinct flavor of the district shines through in selections (some presented in full but many of them excerpted) as varied as a Djuna Barnes article on some downtown hotspots, Sinclair Lewis's short story "Hobohemia," Willa Cather's Washington Square short story "Coming, Aphrodite!," a Lionel Trilling piece on Edmund Wilson, Howard Smith's Village Voice article on Jack Kerouac, Joyce Johnson's memoir Minor Characters and poems by Frank O'Hara. (Publishers Weekly)
The selections, which are taken from authors who have lived in or written about the Village, begin with James McCabe's 1872 description of Bleecker Street and end with Barney Rossett's 2001 memoir. ... Extras that round out the set nicely and add much to its usefulness include a brief history, a chronology, a map with literary landmarks, lists of Village writers, a list of fiction and movies set in the Village, literary sites, and further reading. ... A remarkable picture of a remarkable place emerges. (Library Journal)
For the richness and variety of the selections, The Greenwich Village Reader transcends all previous books about the subject, demonstrating that a compendious compilation can sometimes treat a subject more throughly than a volume written by only one person. (Rain Taxi)
Incontrovertible is that Greenwich Village is, as the Greenwich Village Reader puts it, "America's most seminal literary landscape." (Robert Cross Greenwich Time)
Explores that landscape for more than 700 pages and probably could have expanded into another volume or two. It contains views of Village life-and-death culled from the works of nearly 70 authors and poets (Robert Cross Chicago Tribune)
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