Wonderful town : New York stories from The New Yorker
(2000)
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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, [2000]
©2000
©2000
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 480 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0375503560 (alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
CONTENTS
Five-forty-eight /
John Cheever -- Distant music /
Ann Beattie -- Sailor off the Bremen /
Irwin Shaw -- Physics /
Tama Janowitz -- Whore of Mensa /
Woody Allen -- What it was like, seeing Chris /
Deborah Eisenberg -- Drawing Room B /
John O'Hara -- A sentimental journey /
Peter Taylor -- Balloon /
Donald Barthelme -- Smart money /
Philip Roth -- Another marvellous thing /
Laurie Colwin -- Failure /
Jonathan Franzen -- Apartment hotel /
Sally Benson -- Midair /
Frank Conroy -- Catbird seat /
James Thurber -- Snowing in Greenwich Village /
John Updike -- I see you, Bianca /
Maeve Brennan -- You're ugly, too /
Lorrie Moore -- Symbols and signs /
Vladimir Nabokov -- Poor visitor /
Jamaica Kincaid -- In Greenwich, there are many gravelled walks /
Hortense Calisher -- Some nights when nothing happens are the best nights in this place /
John McNulty -- Slight rebellion off Madison /
J.D. Salinger -- Brownstone /
Renata Adler -- Cafeteria /
Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Partners /
Veronica Geng -- Evolution of knowledge /
Niccolo Tucci -- Way we live now /
Susan Sontag -- Do the windows open? /
Julie Hecht -- Mentocrats /
Edward Newhouse -- Treatment /
Daniel Menaker -- Arrangement in black and white /
Dorothy Parker -- Carlyle tries polygamy /
William Melvin Kelley -- Children are bored on Sunday /
Jean Stafford -- Notes from a bottle /
James Stevenson -- Man in the middle of the ocean /
Daniel Fuchs -- Mespoulets of the splendide /
Ludwig Bemelmans -- Over by the river /
William Maxwell -- Baster /
Jeffrey Eugenides -- Second tree from the corner /
E.B. White -- Rembrandt's hat /
Bernard Malamud -- Shot : a New York story /
Elizabeth Hardwick -- A father-to-be /
Saul Bellow -- Farewell, my lovely appetizer /
S.J. Perelman