Recommended Literature
Readings are available through City of Print's Zotero group library.
(Some readings may require the purchase of a digital subscription to the New Yorker.)
For access to Zotero readings contact, mnoonan@citytech.cuny.edu
Willa Cather “Wagner Matinee” [Everybody’s1904] and “Coming Eden Bower!” [Smart Set1920]
Teju Cole Open City (2012)
Stephen Crane “An Experiment in Misery” (1894)
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (1925)) and “My Lost City” (1931))
Allen Ginsberg “Kaddish” (1958))
Washington Irving “Rip Van Winkle” (1819))
James Joyce Ulysses [13th episode as it appeared in The Little Review] (1917)
Elizabeth Jordan “Ruth Herrick’s Assignment” [Cosmopolitan 1894])
Herman Melville “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853) and “The Paradise of Bachelors” (1855)
Joseph Mitchell “McSorley’s: The Old House at Home” (1940) and “The Cave” (1952)(from Up in the Old Hotel)
Marianne Moore “Granite and Steel” (1966)
Frank O’Hara “The Day Lady Died” (1964)
Dorothy Parker “The Garter” (New Yorker 31 August 1928)
Lillian Ross “The Yellow Bus.” The New Yorker (13 August 1960)
Henry Slesar “Monster on Stage 4” (Amazing Stories 1957)
Carl Van Vechten The Blind Bow-Boy (1923) [ed. Kirsten MacLeod, MHRA 2018]
E.B. White “Here is New York” (Holiday Magazine 1948)
Edith Wharton New Year’s Day (1922), House of Mirth (1905), Age of Innocence (1922)
Walt Whitman “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (1860)
FIRE!! A Magazine Devoted To Younger Negro Artists (1926)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman "If I Were a Man"