New York Times Book of New York
Stories of the People, the Streets, and the Life of the City Past and Present
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Publisher Description
This unique volume uncovers the most fascinating and compelling stories from The New York Times about the city the paper calls home.
More than 200 articles and an abundance of photographs, illustrations, maps, and graphs from the preeminent newspaper in the world take a look at the history and personality of the world's most influential city. Read firsthand accounts of the subway opening in 1904 and the day the Metrocard was introduced; the fall of Tammany Hall and recurring corruption in city politics; the Son of Sam murders; jazz clubs in the 1920s and legendary performances at the Fillmore East; baseball's Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier at Brooklyn's storied Ebbets Field in 1947; the 1977 and 2004 blackouts; the openings and closings of the city's most beloved restaurants; and much more. Not just a historical account, this is a fascinating, sometimes funny, and often moving look at how people in New York live, eat, travel, mourn, fight, love, and celebrate.
Organized by theme, the book includes original writings on all topics related to city life, including art, architecture, transportation, politics, neighborhoods, people, sports, business, food, and more. Includes articles from such well-known Times writers as Meyer Berger, Gay Talese, Anna Quindlen, Israel Shenker, Brooks Atkinson, Frank Rich, Ada Louise Huxtable, John Kieran, Russell Baker, and more. Special contributors who have written about New York for the Times include Paul Auster, Woody Allen, and E.B. White, among others.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
NYTBR editor Jordan and editing fellow Qasim collect the Book Review's hits from more than 6,000 issues in this meticulously crafted celebration of the written word. The newspaper's foray into covering literary news began on Sept. 18, 1851, though it wasn't until Adolph S. Ochs became publisher in 1896 that the NYTBR first appeared as a stand-alone, eight-page supplement, which included reviews, plus information on the lives, deaths, and marriages of famous authors. Essays, interviews, reviews, and letters to the editor dating back to that year feature here and make for a sweeping summary of a century of literary tastes and trends: in 1900, the Book Review "rail against heroines who smoke in novels," and in 1922, Jordan and Qasim write, "T. S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land. The Book Review pays no attention." There are essays on literary scandals (such as "The Brouhaha over Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth" from 1905) and old advertisements (one from 1927 features a man impressing his date with his poetry knowledge). Each chapter is full of entertaining reviews and book covers ("Californians are not going to like this angry novel," one reviewer wrote of The Grapes of Wrath), plus delightful photos. Literature lovers are in for a treat.
