Literary Landscapes: New York: A book-lovers tour of the city that never sleeps (Literary Landscapes)

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A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors neighbourhoods in the Big Apple.

Literary Landscapes: New York is the follow-up to Literary Landscapes: Paris and contains a familiar blend of everything precious to the bibliophile a blend of quirky bookstores, authors favourite bars, grand libraries, storied hotels, on- and off-Broadway theatres, New York residences and literary locations.

For beloved bookstores there is the Argosy, dating to 1925 and the oldest in Manhattan, Three Lives & Company in West Village, The Strand in East Village, The Corner Bookstore on the Upper East Side, the Alabaster Bookshop, and, stretching across to Brooklyn, the Greenlight Bookstore.

LL:NYC takes you inside restaurants and bars like Sardis birthplace of the Tony Award; the Algonquin Hotel and the White Horse Tavern, Dylan Thomass last night out in the Big Apple.

When it comes to hotels, The Plaza appears in F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, but it is the Chelsea Hotel that has the most literary resonance. Mark Twain stayed there, Arthur Miller wrote there, as did Arthur C. Clarke and Simone de Beauvoir.

Literary locations are aplenty in New York from Breakfast at Tiffanys by Truman Capote to Washington Square by Henry James.

The book takes a short trip up Long Island to visit Walt Whitmans birthplace and while nothing but plaques remain of the New York homes that Herman Melville knew, we visit the literary giants buried alongside Melville in Woodlawn Cemetery.

All these chapters are interspersed with telling quotes about the city that never sleeps.

Author Bio

Evan Joseph is one of New York Citys leading photographers for architecture and interiors. His work has been published in magazines around the world, including Architectural Digest, Elle Dcor, NY Living, New York Magazine, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Times.

Amy Evans has lived in New York longer than she's lived anywhere. She is a USA Today best-selling author, having written the young adult books Clicks and Jellybean Kisses.