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Author | : John Tytell |
Publisher | : Alfred A. Knopf |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Part biography, part memoir, part belles lettres--this wonderful book celebrates the act of reading, the writers whose work awakened the soul of a young man growing up in New York in the 1940s and 1950s, and the history of the city itself. Reading New York opens with 12-year-old John Tytell, confined by eye problems to a darkened room, discovering Billy Budd, sailing Melville's ocean by flashlight in bed. Vividly capturing the excitement of his first encounter with a masterpiece, Tytell goes deeper to expose the heart of Melville's story and of the writer's life. He weaves the same kind of spell--from memory, language, and experience--in evoking his encounters with the work of the other writers who figured as milestones in his own coming of age: Poe, Whitman, Henry Miller, Henry James. And completing the book's vivid narrative is Tytell's story: his family's flight from Antwerp after the Nazi invasion, his own life in New York--as a child, as an adolescent, and as an adult still moved by the books that helped shape him. Acclaimed for his biographies of Ezra Pound and the Beats, Tytell now gives us a brilliant hybrid: acutely perceptive literary criticism that is, as well, an intimate exploration of the experience of literature, and of a city steeped in literary lorc.
Author | : Marc Brown |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2008-05-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375829768 |
Download Arthur in New York Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
WHEN ARTHUR AND D.W. travel to New York City with their parents, they visit the Statue of Liberty, a museum, and they even see a Broadway show! But D.W. is most excited about visiting Mary Moo-Cow Palace with her Mary Moo-Cow doll. When D.W. doesn’t follow her parents’ rule and goes off by herself, the family must find her. Luckily, Arthur knows just where to find D.W.—Mary Moo-Cow Palace, of course!
Author | : David M. Henkin |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231107440 |
Download City Reading Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Henkin explores the influential but little-noticed role reading played in New York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. The "ubiquitous urban texts"--from newspapers to paper money, from street signs to handbills--became both indispensable urban guides and apt symbols for a new kind of public life that emerged first in New York.
Author | : Tim Parks |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2015-05-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 159017884X |
Download Where I'm Reading From Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I’m Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades of critical reading—from Leopardi, Dickens, and Chekhov, to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Bernhard, and on to contemporary work by Peter Stamm, Alice Munro, and many others—to upend our assumptions about literature and its purpose. In thirty-seven interlocking essays, Where I’m Reading From examines the rise of the “international” novel and the disappearance of “national” literary styles; how market forces shape “serious” fiction; the unintended effects of translation; the growing stasis of literary criticism; and the problematic relationship between writers’ lives and their work. Through dazzling close readings and probing self-examination, Parks wonders whether writers—and readers—can escape the twin pressures of the new global system and the novel that has become its emblematic genre.
Author | : John Seabrook |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2001-02-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0375704515 |
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From John Seabrook, one of our most incisive and amusing cultural critics, comes Nobrow, a fascinatingly original look at the radical convergence of marketing and culture. In the old days, highbrow was elite and unique and lowbrow was commercial and mass-produced. Those distinctions have been eradicated by a new cultural landscape where “good” means popular, where artists show their work at K-Mart, Titantic becomes a bestselling classical album, and Roseanne Barr guest edits The New Yorker: in short, a culture of Nobrow. Combining social commentary, memoir, and profiles of the potentates and purveyors of pop culture–entertainment mogul David Geffen, MTV President Judy McGrath, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Nobrow high-priest George Lucas, and others–Seabrook offers an enthralling look at our breakneck society where culture is ruled by the unpredictable Buzz and where even aesthetic worth is measured by units shipped.
Author | : Salvatore Rubbino |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2017-09-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0763695106 |
Download A Walk in New York Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
New York City the perfect place for a boy and his dad to spend the day! Follow them on their walk around Manhattan, from Grand Central Terminal to the top of the Empire State Building, from Greenwich Village to the Statue of Liberty, learning lots of facts and trivia along the way.
Author | : Meg Fee |
Publisher | : Icon Books |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2018-05-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1785783041 |
Download Places I Stopped on the Way Home Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'Fee writes with stunning honesty ... utterly breathtaking' - Bustle A beautiful memoir from an exciting young writer, Meg Fee, on finding her way in New York City. Full of the dramas and quiet moments that make up a life, told with humour, heart, and hope. In Places I Stopped on the Way Home, Meg Fee plots a decade of her life in New York City – from falling in love at the Lincoln Center to escaping the roommate (and bedbugs) from hell on Thompson Street, chasing false promises on 66th Street and the wrong men everywhere, and finding true friendships over glasses of wine in Harlem and Greenwich Village. Weaving together her joys and sorrows, expectations and uncertainties, aspirations and realities, the result is an exhilarating collection of essays about love and friendship, failure and suffering, and above all hope. Join Meg on her heart-wrenching journey, as she cuts the difficult path to finding herself and finding home.
Author | : Michael W. Brooks |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813523965 |
Download Subway City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Traces the development of the subway from its inception to its decline as an overcrowded and dangerous part of city life - Explores how it has been represented in film and art - Gives women's experiences of the subway - Examines the city's racial tensions - Skyscapers - Spatial layout of the city - Urban space.
Author | : Adam Gamble |
Publisher | : Good Night Books |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2006-10-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1602197563 |
Download Good Night New York City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Easy-to-read text introduces the sights of New York City through a full day of sightseeing.
Author | : Kathy Jakobsen |
Publisher | : Little Brown & Company |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780316713504 |
Download My New York Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A young New Yorker writes to her friend from the Midwest to tell about the things they will see in the city when Martin comes to visit her, in a holiday gift edition of a title first released ten years ago. 50,000 first printing.