| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 480 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
The five-forty-eight / John Cheever -- Distant music / Ann Beattie -- Sailor off the Bremen / Irwin Shaw -- Physics / Tama Janowitz -- The whore of Mensa / Woody Allen -- What it was like, seeing Chris / Deborah Eisenberg -- Drawing Room B / John O'Hara -- A sentimental journey / Peter Taylor -- The balloon / Donald Barthelme -- Smart money / Philip Roth -- Another marvellous thing / Laurie Colwin -- The failure / Jonathan Franzen -- Apartment hotel / Sally Benson -- Midair / Frank Conroy -- The 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 -- The cafeteria / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Partners / Veronica Geng -- The evolution of knowledge / Niccolo Tucci -- The way we live now / Susan Sontag -- Do the windows open? / Julie Hecht -- The Mentocrats / Edward Newhouse -- The 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 -- The 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. |
| Subject |
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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National Book Committee. |
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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City and town life. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Short stories, American -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Short stories, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories, American.
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| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Remnick, David.
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Choi, Susan, 1969-
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| Added Title |
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
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| ISBN |
0375503560 alkaline paper |
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