New York Literary Lights: William Corbett - Softcover

Corbett, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555972721 ISBN 13: 9781555972721

Publisher: Graywolf Press, 1998

Synopsis

William Corbett takes an expansive look at the ghosts, the landmarks, and the current denizens who make New York City so popular with the literary crowd. Ranging from Paul Auster to Zora Neale Hurston, from the Algonquin Round Table to the Nuyorican Poets Café, from Edgar Allan Poe to the Beat Generation, Corbett takes us on a dizzying ride through the literary highlights of New York.

Illuminating a city rich in famous writers against a combustible mixture of cultures and commerce, Corbett shows us how New York's multifaceted literary present has emerged from its constantly evolving past. New York Literary Lights travels through both time and place to provide an altogether enlightening, entertaining hybrid of history, gossip, and reference book.

About this title

About the Author

Poet and memorist William Corbett lives in Boston's South End is Writer in Residence at MIT. He edits poetry for Grand Street. He is the author of Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir, New & Selected Poems, Literary New England, and Furthering My Education.

From the Back Cover

New York: Literary Lights

"More than any mere guidebook, New York Literary Lights is an alphabetized collection of thumbnail biographies of writers, bars, buildings, bookstores, and neighborhoods. Reading in it is like taking a leisurely stroll through the history of writing in New York City alongside a brilliant local historian who is as droll and sharp as he is learned."--Russell Banks

William Corbett takes an expansive look at the ghosts, the landmarks, and the current denizens who make New York City so popular with the literary crowd. Ranging from Paul Auster to Zora Neale Hurston, from the Algonquin Round Table to the Nuyorican Poets Café, from Edgar Allan Poe to the Beat Generation, Corbett takes us on a dizzying ride through the literary highlights of New York.

Illuminating a city rich in famous writers against a combustible mixture of cultures and commerce, Corbett shows us how New York's multifaceted literary present has emerged from its constantly evolving past. New York Literary Lights travels through both time and place to provide an altogether enlightening, entertaining hybrid of history, gossip, and reference book.

Poet and memorist William Corbett lives in Boston's South End is Writer in Residence at MIT. He edits poetry for Grand Street. He is the author of Philip Guston's Late Work: A Memoir, New & Selected Poems, Literary New England, and Furthering My Education.

Reviews

The undisputed fulcrum of America's literary activity, New York City has long nurtured the creative spirit of American letters, and this discerning biographical/descriptive guidebook covers the writers, bars, buildings, bookstores, and neighborhoods bubbling away in New York's literary cauldron. Opening with New York's beginnings as a Dutch colony, the concise text briefly summarizes the life and work of writers, both native New Yorkers and others who achieved fame there. In alphabetical order, the book ranges from Auchincloss to Zudofsky, covering not only the city's writers but its publishers, agents, magazines, bookstores, libraries, neighborhoods, institutions, and a miscellany of other information, including selected postal addresses. Droll and sharp, Corbett (Furthering My Education, LJ 4/15/97) takes us on a leisurely stroll through four centuries of publishing and creativity.?Richard K. Burns, Hatboro,
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Edition details

• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555972721
• ISBN 13: 9781555972721
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346