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Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker

by David Remnick (Editor), Susan Choi (Editor)

Other authors: Renata Adler (Contributor), Woody Allen (Contributor), Donald Barthelme (Contributor), Ann Beattie (Contributor), Saul Bellow (Contributor) — 41 more, Ludwig Bemelmans (Contributor), Sally Benson (Contributor), Maeve Brennan (Contributor), Hortense Calisher (Contributor), John Cheever (Contributor), Laurie Colwin (Contributor), Frank Conroy (Contributor), Edwidge Danticat (Contributor), Deborah Eisenberg (Contributor), Jeffrey Eugenides (Contributor), Jonathan Franzen (Contributor), Daniel Fuchs (Contributor), Veronica Geng (Contributor), Elizabeth Hardwick (Contributor), Julie Hecht (Contributor), Tama Janowitz (Contributor), William Melvin Kelley (Contributor), Jamaica Kincaid (Contributor), Bernard Malamud (Contributor), William Maxwell (Contributor), John McNulty (Contributor), Daniel Menaker (Contributor), Lorrie Moore (Contributor), Vladimir Nabokov (Contributor), Edward Newhouse (Contributor), John O'Hara (Contributor), Dorothy Parker (Contributor), S.J. Perelman (Contributor), Philip Roth (Contributor), J.D. Salinger (Contributor), David Schickler (Contributor), Irwin Shaw (Contributor), Isaac Bashevis Singer (Contributor), Susan Sontag (Contributor), Jean Stafford (Contributor), James Stevenson (Contributor), Peter Taylor (Contributor), James Thurber (Contributor), Niccolò Tucci (Contributor), John Updike (Contributor), E. B. White (Contributor)

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Anthologized from the reigning literary magazine of the century -- and in honor of its 75th anniversary -- the finest short stories about the greatest city in the world.Wonderful Town, the second half of our celebration of The New Yorker's 75th anniversary, masterfully anthologizes a selection of the greatest short stories written this century. While the individual stories differ widely in their theme and tone, all share the common thread of taking place in and around New York City. However, this anthology is as much about the writing as the venue and will make fascinating listening for all. In the authors' capable imaginations, the city itself is not just a setting but a character itself, with the kind of range and impact that any major literary character achieves. Like New York, Wonderful Town contains the anomalous and the commonplace, shock and comfort, triumph and melancholy.… (more)

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813.0108327471Literature › English (North America) › American fiction › By type › Short fiction

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PS549.N5Language and Literature › American literature › American literature › Collections of American literature › By region › North

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