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 | "The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of The Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs)" [2005] Introduction by David Remnick Every page of every issue from February 1925 to February 2005, from full-color covers to spot drawings, from poetry to Profiles, from cartoons to advertisements – all on eight searchable DVDs, with a companion book of highlights Random House 12½x9½ hardcover [9/2005] for $8.50 |
 | "The 40s: The Story of A Decade" [2014] from The New Yorker Magazine, Introduction by David Remnick contributors include: W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, John Cheever, David Denby, Janet Flanner, John Hersey, Langston Hughes, Shirley Jackson, Jill Lepore, A.J. Liebling, William Maxwell, Carson McCullers, Louis Menand, Joseph Mitchell, Vladimir Nabokov, Ogden Nash, John OHara, George Orwell, George Packer, V.S. Pritchett, Lillian Ross, Zadie Smith, Stephen Spender, Lionel Trilling, Rebecca West, E.B. White, Williams Carlos Williams, and Edmund Wilson Kindle Edition from Random House [5/2014] for $15.99 Modern Library 9¼x6 pb [5/2015] for $15.80 Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2014] for $20.83 |
 | "The 50s: The Story of A Decade" [2015] from The New Yorker Magazine, Introduction by David Remnick contributors include: Elizabeth Bishop, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Roald Dahl, Janet Flanner, Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Gopnik, Nadine Gordimer, Elizabeth Kolbert, Jill Lepore, A.J. Liebling, Dwight Mac-donald, Rebecca Mead, Joseph Mitchell, Marianne Moore, Paul Muldoon, Vladimir Nabokov, Evan Osnos, Sylvia Plath, V.S. Pritchett, David Remnick, Adrienne Rich, Lillian Ross, Philip Roth, Anne Sexton, James Thurber, John Updike, Eudora Welty, E.B. White, and Edmund Wilson Kindle Edition from Random House [10/2015] for $15.99 Modern Library 9¼x6 pb [7/2016] for $14.95 Random House 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2015] for $23.25 |
 | "The 60s: The Story of A Decade" [2016] from The New Yorker Magazine, Introduction by David Remnick contributors include: Renata Adler, Roger Angell, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Rachel Carson, John Cheever, Mavis Gallant, Pauline Kael, Jane Kramer, John McPhee, Sylvia Plath, Muriel Spark, Calvin Trillin, John Updike, and E.B. White Kindle Edition from Random House [10/2016] for $14.99 Random House 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2016] for $26.47 |
Selected Books About New York
David Mason, Colorado Poet Laureate
Selected Non-Fiction & Memoir Books About New York City
browse travel books about New York State U.S.A. at Amazon
"How the Other Half Lives, Special Illustrated Edition" [orig 1890, 10/2009] by Jacob Riis
http://www.amazon.com/Other-Half-Lives-Special-Illustrated/dp/1438296630/
"The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge" [1942] by Hildegarde H. Swift, Illustrated by Lynd Ward
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Lighthouse-Great-Gray-Bridge/dp/0152045732/
the George Washington Bridge in New York City and the Little Red Lighthouse that stands watching over the Hudson River.
"New York: Confidential!" [1948] by Jack Lait & Lee Mortimer
http://www.amazon.com/New-York-confidential-Jack-Lait/dp/B0006ARLIS/
"Here Is New York" [1949] by E.B. White [1899-1985]
http://www.amazon.com/Here-New-York-E-B-White/dp/1892145022/
"Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York, 1890-1930" [1966] by Gilbert Osofsky
http://www.amazon.com/Harlem-Making-Ghetto-Negro-1890-1930/dp/1566631041/
 | "Gramercy Park: An American Bloomsbury" [1987] by Carole Klein The exclusive gated community of Gramercy Park in New York City was built in the 1840s by developer Samuel B. Ruggles, and became a Victorian-era literary hotbed, often compared to England's Bloomsbury Group. Residents and visitors included George Bellows, Sarah Bernhardt, stage actor Edwin Booth, William Cullen Bryant, Peter Cooper, Charles Dickens, Cyrus Field, publisher James Harper, writer O. Henry, Henry James, Herman Melville, William Thackeray, Gov. Samuel Tilden, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, architect Stanford White, and Walt Whitman Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6 pb [1999] out of print/used Houghton Mifflin 9x6 hardcover [11/87] out of print/many used |
"Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World" (4/1996] by William R. Taylor
http://www.amazon.com/Inventing-Times-Square-Commerce-Crossroads/dp/0801853370/
 | "The Beat Generation In New York: A Walking Tour of Jack Kerouac's City" [1997] by Bill Morgan City Lights 8½x4½ pb [11/97] for $10.36 |
"Old New York In Picture Postcards: 1900-1945" [7/1999] by Jack H. Smith 1879511436
"The Stork Club: America's Most Famous Nightspot - and the Lost World of Cafι Society"
[Little, Brown & Co. 2000] by Ralph Blumenthal
 | "Harpo Speaks . . . About New York" [2001] by Harpo Marx, with Rowland Barber, Introduction by E.L. Doctorow Little Bookroom hardcover [2005] out of print/used |
"Wonderful Town: New York Stories From The New Yorker" [5/2001] Edited by Susan Choi
http://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Town-Stories-Library-Paperbacks/dp/037575752X/
"Lost New York In Old Post Cards" [8/2001] by Rod Kennedy 1586850415
"Broadway: An Encyclopedia" [11/2003] by Ken Bloom
http://www.amazon.com/Broadway-Encyclopedia-Ken-Bloom/dp/0415937043/
"Everyone Comes to Elaine's: Forty Years of Movie Stars, All-Stars, Literary Lions, Financial Scions, Top Cops,..." [3/2004] by A. E. Hotchner
http://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Comes-Elaines-All-Stars-Politicians/dp/006053818X/
"Times Square Style: Graphics From The Golden Age of Broadway" [8/2004] by Steven Heller & Vicki Gold Levi
http://www.amazon.com/Times-Square-Style-Graphics-Broadway/dp/1568984901/
http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Literary-Imagination-Twentieth/dp/0786430710/ [11/2007]
"The Encyclopedia of New York City" [12/2010] edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, Nancy Flood 0300114656
 | "Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History From Dutch Village To Capital of Black America" [2011] by Jonathan Gill
Kindle Edition from Grove Press [2/2011] for $2.99 {sic} Grove Press 9x6 pb [2/2012] for $17.25 Grove Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2011] for $26.66 |
"Capitol of The World: A Portrait of New York City In The Roaring Twenties" [6/2011] by David Wallace
http://www.amazon.com/Capital-World-Portrait-Roaring-Twenties/dp/0762770104/
"Gunfighter In Gotham: Bat Masterson's New York City Years" [2/2013] by Robert K. DeArment
http://www.amazon.com/Gunfighter-Gotham-Mastersons-York-Years/dp/0806142634/
"Humans of New York" [10/2013 bestseller] by photographer Brandon Stanton
http://www.amazon.com/Humans-New-York-Brandon-Stanton/dp/1250038820/
previous collection of writers talking about leaving New York, "Goodbye to All That" [10/2013]
http://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-All-That-Writers-Leaving/dp/1580054943/
"Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto" [12/2013] by Camilo Josι Vergara
http://www.amazon.com/Harlem-Unmaking-Historical-Studies-America/dp/0226853365/
"Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakeable Love for New York" [Touchstone, 27 essays, 10/2014]
edited by Sari Botton, editor 9781476784403
"Little Humans of New York" [10/2014] by photographer Brandon Stanton
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Humans-Brandon-Stanton/dp/0374374562/
"Humans of New York: Stories" [St. Martin's Press, 10/2015] by photographer Brandon Stanton ISBN 1250058902
http://www.amazon.com/1964-1965-New-York-Worlds-Fair/dp/0738557455/
http://www.amazon.com/ABC-NYC-Book-About-Seeing/dp/0810958546/
http://www.amazon.com/About-New-York-Francis-Clines/dp/007011384X/
http://www.amazon.com/About-Town-Yorker-World-First/dp/0684816059/
http://www.amazon.com/BMF-Meech-Black-Mafia-Family/dp/0312674155/
http://www.amazon.com/Brave-Girl-Shirtwaist-Makers-Strike/dp/0061804428/
http://www.amazon.com/Bridges-New-York-City/dp/048641230X/
http://www.amazon.com/CBGB-OMFUG-Thirty-Years-Underground/dp/0810957868/
http://www.amazon.com/Central-Park-American-Masterpiece-Comprehensive/dp/0810939460/
http://www.amazon.com/Central-Park-Five-Untold-Infamous/dp/0307387984/
http://www.amazon.com/City-Beneath-Us-Building-Subway/dp/0393057976/
http://www.amazon.com/Colony-New-Netherland-Settlement-Seventeenth-Century/dp/0801475163/
http://www.amazon.com/Coney-Island-Found-Charles-Denson/dp/1580084559/
http://www.amazon.com/Curious-New-Yorker-Fascinating-Surprising/dp/0812930029/
http://www.amazon.com/Down-These-Mean-Streets-Thomas/dp/0679781420/ = 1977
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http://www.amazon.com/Emmas-Poem-Voice-Statue-Liberty/dp/0544105087/
http://www.amazon.com/Feel-Relatively-Neutral-About-York/dp/0811874567/
http://www.amazon.com/Five-Points-Nineteenth-Century-York-Neighborhood-ebook/dp/B007SNU0QG/
http://www.amazon.com/Gangland-New-York-Places-History/dp/1493006002/
http://www.amazon.com/Gangs-New-York-Informal-Underworld/dp/0307388980/
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http://www.amazon.com/Gotham-History-York-City-1898/dp/0195140494/
http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Central-Oyster-Restaurant-Cookbook/dp/1617690619/
http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Central-Station-Transformed-America/dp/1455525960/
http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Central-Terminal-Years-Landmark/dp/1584799943/
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Bridge-Story-Building-Brooklyn/dp/067145711X/
http://www.amazon.com/High-Line-Inside-Story-Citys/dp/0374532990/
http://www.amazon.com/Island-Center-World-Manhattan-Forgotten/dp/1400078679/
http://www.amazon.com/Island-Vice-Theodore-Roosevelts-Sin-Loving/dp/0767926196/
http://www.amazon.com/Just-Kids-Bronx-Telling-History/dp/1627790950/
http://www.amazon.com/Ladies-Gentlemen-Bronx-Burning-Baseball/dp/0312424302/
http://www.amazon.com/Life-At-Dakota-Unusual-Address/dp/081560338X/
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-New-York-Marcia-Reiss/dp/1862059357/
http://www.amazon.com/Maggie-Writings-Annotated-Literary-Collection-ebook/dp/B006JG0UTK/
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http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Portrait-Reuel-Golden/dp/3836505142/
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http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Times-Book-Stories/dp/1579128017/
http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Underground-Anatomy-City/dp/0415963109/
http://www.amazon.com/Newcomers-Handbook-Moving-Living-York/dp/0912301961/
http://www.amazon.com/North-Brother-Island-Empire-Editions/dp/0823257711/
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http://www.amazon.com/Only-New-York-Remarkable-Provocative/dp/031232605X/
http://www.amazon.com/Orchard-Street-New-York-Immigrant/dp/0887765807/
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http://www.amazon.com/Place-Where-We-Dwell-Reading/dp/0757590179/
http://www.amazon.com/Place-Where-We-Dwell-Reading/dp/0757546161/
http://www.amazon.com/PLACE-WHERE-WE-DWELL-READING/dp/0757520502/
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http://www.amazon.com/Queens-Notes-Facts-Forgotten-Borough/dp/1432754130/
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Moses-Master-Builder-York/dp/1907704965/
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Moses-Modern-City-Transformation/dp/0393732436/
http://www.amazon.com/Shambling-Guide-York-City-Guides/dp/0316221171/
http://www.amazon.com/Shutting-Out-Sky-Tenements-1880-1924/dp/0439375908/
http://www.amazon.com/Sidewalk-Mitchell-Duneier/dp/0374527253/
http://www.amazon.com/Stonewall-Riots-That-Sparked-Revolution/dp/0312671938/
http://www.amazon.com/Stories-Freedom-Black-New-York/dp/0674025784/
http://www.amazon.com/Story-Statue-Liberty-Betsy-Maestro/dp/0688087469/
http://www.amazon.com/Takedown-Fall-Last-Mafia-Empire/dp/0399148752/
http://www.amazon.com/This-New-York-Miroslav-Sasek/dp/0789308843/
http://www.amazon.com/Triangle-Ground-Yorks-Bloods-Crips/dp/1493007602/
http://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-New-York-Long-Term/dp/0989398676/
http://www.amazon.com/Vivian-Maier-Street-Photographer/dp/1576875776/
http://www.amazon.com/Westies-Inside-New-Yorks-Irish/dp/0312362846/
http://www.amazon.com/Whatever-Takes-Geoffrey-Canadas-America/dp/0547247966/
http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Great-About-York-States/dp/1467745278/
http://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Town-Stories-Library-Paperbacks/dp/037575752X/
http://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Wall-Street-Jordan-Belfort/dp/0553384775/
http://www.amazon.com/Writing-New-York-Literary-Anthology/dp/1598530216/
http://www.amazon.com/York-City-Drivers-Joke-Book/dp/0446344877/
http://www.amazon.com/York-City-Radio-Images-America/dp/0738598097/
 | "How We Live Now: Scenes From The Pandemic" [2020] by Bill Hayes tales of life in New York City featuring the author's inimitable street photographs Kindle Edition from Bloomsbury Publng [8/2020] for $9.99 Bloomsbury Publng 10x8 pb [1/2022] for $17.00 
Bloomsbury Publng 8½x6 hardcover [8/2020] for $18.98 |
Selected Non-Fiction & Memoir Books About New York State
browse travel books about New York State U.S.A. at Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Adirondacks-History-Americas-First-Wilderness/dp/0805059903/
http://www.amazon.com/City-Edge-Buffalo-York-present/dp/1591024579/
http://www.amazon.com/Empire-State-History-New-York/dp/0801489911/
http://www.amazon.com/Gangsters-Organized-Crime-Buffalo-Headquarters/dp/1609495640/
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Woodstock-Michael-Lang/dp/0061576581/
http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-New-York-Defining-Excelsior/dp/1438456581/
http://www.amazon.com/Woodswoman-Living-Alone-Adirondack-Wilderness/dp/0140153349/
Selected Fiction Books About New York
mystery author Margaret Coel lives in Boulder, Colorado
 | "Manhattan: Stories From The Heart of A Great City" [1954]
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Damon Runyon, Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, John O'Hara, Irwin Shaw, and others Bantam mass pb [1954] out of print/scarce Bantam mass pb [1954] out of print/scarce |
"Murder On Gramercy Park (Gaslight Mystery Series)" [2001 mystery novel] by Victoria Thompson
"Gramercy Park" [2003] historical novel set in 1894 by Paula Cohen
 | "Red Chaser: A Noir Thriller of The 1950s, The Cold War, and The Brooklyn Dodgers" mystery novel [2008] by Jon Spoelstra Brooklyn 1951: Jake returns from five years hunting Nazis in postwar Germany and becomes a private detective; he tangles with a spy network run by a gorgeous redhead, blackmailers, and Joseph McCarthy - which interferes with his main focus in life, the Dodgers and the race for the baseball World Series Kindle Edition from indep [12/2008] for $2.99 indep 9x6 pb [7/2020] for $12.95 |
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"Brooklyn Noir" [19 stories 2004] Edited by Tim McLoughlin
Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [7/2004] for $11.17 "Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics" [2005] Edited by Tim McLoughlin Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [6/2005] for $11.96 "Brooklyn Noir 3: Nothing But The Truth" [2008] Edited by Tim McLoughlin Akashic Books 8¼x5¼ pb [5/2008] for $11.96 more cities in the Akashic Noir Series |
 | "Manhattan Noir" [15 stories 2006] Edited by Lawrence Block
Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [4/2006] for $12.44 brand-new stories by Charles Ardai, Carol Lea Benjamin, editor Block, Thomas H. Cook, Jeffery Deaver, Jim Fusilli, Robert Knightly, John Lutz, Liz Martνnez, Maan Meyers, Martin Meyers, S.J. Rozan, Justin Scott, C.J. Sullivan, and Xu Xi "Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics" [20 stories 2006] Edited by Lawrence Block Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [9/2008] for $14.04 20 classic stories & poems by Geoffrey Bartholomew, editor Block, Jerome Charyn, Stephen Crane, Horace Gregory, O. Henry, Clark Howard, Langston Hughes, Evan Hunter, Susan Isaacs, Barry N. Malzberg, Jerrold Mundis, Joyce Carol Oates, Edgar Allan Poe, Damon Runyon, Irwin Shaw, Jerome Weidman, Donald E. Westlake, Edith Wharton, and Cornell Woolrich more cities in the Akashic Noir Series |
 | "Bronx Noir" [19 stories 2007] Edited by S.J. Rozan
Akashic Books 8x5¼ pb [8/2007] for $13.63 brand-new stories by Thomas Adcock, Kevin Baker, Thomas Bentil, Lawrence Block, Jerome Charyn, Suzanne Chazin, Terrence Cheng, Ed Dee, Joanne Dobson, Robert Hughes, Marlon James, Sandra Kitt, Rita Laken, Miles Marshall Lewis, Pat Picciarelli, Abraham Rodriguez Jr., editor Rozan, Steven Torres, and Joe Wallace more cities in the Akashic Noir Series |
"Gramercy Park: A Story of New York" [1892 novel] by John Seymour Wood
"Ragtime: A Novel" [1975] by E.L. Doctorow
http://www.amazon.com/Ragtime-Novel-Modern-Library-Novels/dp/0812978188/
http://www.amazon.com/Wall-Street-Noir-Akashic/dp/1933354232/ 2007
http://www.amazon.com/Queens-Noir-Akashic-Robert-Knightly/dp/1933354402/ 2008
"New York: The Novel" [9/2010] by Edward Rutherfurd
http://www.amazon.com/New-York-Novel-Edward-Rutherfurd/dp/0345497422/
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"No Irish Need Apply: A Novel About New York City's Hell's Kitchen in the Mid-1800s" [4/2015] by John Finucane & John Vedder
http://www.amazon.com/No-Irish-Need-Apply-Mid-1800s/dp/1634980980/
http://www.amazon.com/Bright-Lights-Big-City-McInerney/dp/0394726413/
http://www.amazon.com/City-Dreams-Novel-Amsterdam-Manhattan/dp/0684871734/
http://www.amazon.com/Devil-Wears-Prada-Novel/dp/0767914767/
http://www.amazon.com/Heart-City-Stories-Serendipity-Streets/dp/0306820803/
http://www.amazon.com/Journal-Finn-Reardon-newsie-America/dp/0439188946/
http://www.amazon.com/Street-Novel-Ann-Petry/dp/0395901499/ = 1946
http://www.amazon.com/Uprising-Margaret-Peterson-Haddix/dp/1416911723/
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