New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's life blood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by man...

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New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's life blood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the 75-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection.

Wonderful Town touches on some of the city's famous places and stops at some of its more obscure corners, but the real guidebook is to the hearts and the minds of those who populate the metropolis built by its pages. New York is every great and ordinary place. Each life in it, and each life in Wonderful Town, is the life of us all.

Brownstone, Renata Adler
The Whore of Mensa, Woody Allen
In Greenwich, There are Many Graveled Walks, Hortense Calisher
The Five-Forty-Eight, John Cheever
Another Marvelous Thing, Laurie Colwin
Midair, Frank Conroy
What It Was Like, Seeing Chris, Deborah Eisenberg
Baster, Jeffrey Eugenides
Partners, Veronica Geng
Carlyle Tries Polygamy, William Melvin Kelley
Poor Visitor, Jamaica Kincaid
Symbols and Signs, Vladimir Nabokov
Arrangement in Black and White, Dorothy Parker
The Cafeteria, Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Way We Live Now, Susan Sontag
Notes From a Bottle, James Stevenson
A Sentimental Journey, Peter Taylor
The Catbird Seat, James Thurber
The Evolution of Knowledge, Niccolo Tucci
The Second Tree From the Corner, E.B. White



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