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A comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining anthology of the finest literature and art of New York City. This book draws on material from generations of the world's greatest writers and artists. Writers included range from Charles Dickens to Tom Wolfe with contributions from such diverse literary figures as Saul Bellow, Truman Capote, Henry James, Kathy Acker, Edmund White and more. The extracts come from novels, poems, songs, satire, historical documents diaries, anecdotes & journalism. The art includes murals, engravings posters, drawings and lithographs from all periods of the city's history by such photographers as Stieglitz, Cartier-Bresson & Berenice Abbott; painters such as John Marin, Frank Stella, Ben Shahn & Edward Hopper & many others. This superb collection brilliantly captures in 192 pages of color and black & white art and literature the atmosphere and life of the city on every page.