New York City: Essays, poetry and impressions
Phillip Lopate (ed) Writing New York (Library of America, US). A massive literary anthology taking in both fiction and non-fiction writings on the city, and with selections from everyone from washington Irving to Tom Wolfe.Frederico Garcia Lorca Poet in New York (Penguin/Grove Weidenfeld, o/p). The Andalucian poet and dramatist spent nine months in the city around the time of the Wall Street Crash. This collection of over thirty poems reveals his feelings on the brutality, loneliness, greed, corruption, racism and mistreatment of the poor.
Joseph Mitchell Up in the Old Hotel (Random House, US). Mitchell's collected essays (he calls them stories), all of which appeared in the New Yorker , are works of a sober if manipulative genius. Mitchell depicts characters and situations with a reporter's precision and near-perfect style - he is the definitive chronicler of NYC street life.
Jan Morris Manhattan '45 (Penguin/Oxford UP). Morris's best piece of writing on Manhattan, reconstructing New York as it greeted returning GIs in 1945. Effortlessly written, fascinatingly anecdotal, marvelously warm about the city. See also The Great Port (Oxford UP).
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