Literary Life N.Y.C. Style

We work in the dark --
We do what we can --
We give what we have.
Our doubt is our passion, and
Our passion is our task.
The rest is the madness of art.
[-- from The Middle Years, 1893, by Henry James
(1843-1916), author of Washington Square, 1881, a
novel whose backdrop was his grandmother's townhouse
on Washington Square South. Its high parlor windows
overlook the famous 1893 Arch designed by Stanford
White. This landmark, used as a symbol of Greenwich
Village, is the city's grand gateway to Fifth Avenue.]

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Dish no one else will blab to you about writers
and literary lights who live/lived in N.Y.C.:
In 1932, Sara Teasdale took an apartment at 1 Fifth Avenue;
she committed suicide there a year later.
When Theodore Dreiser came here in 1895, he rented a bed by the
night at The Mills Hotel [now the Greenwich Hotel] for a quarter.
Gay Street, vividly portrayed by playwright Ruth McKenney in her
popular comedy My Sister Eileen, was the same street Mary McCarthy
lived on, where she exulted in being "poor and alone" after
separating from her first husband.
Joan Didion continues to write about California but has been a
citizen of Manhattan since 1988.
Cosmopolitan ed. Helen Gurley Brown mops at 7 W. 81st St.
Rolling Stone publ. Jann Wenner rocks at 55 Central Park W.
Literary agent Lynn Nesbit ages at 44 W. 77th St.
Writer Graydon Carter once SPY-ed the Dakota: 1 W. 72nd St.
Guidebook gurus Tim & Nina Zagat unpack at 55 Central Park W.
N.Y.C. has many full-size statues of male writers but only one
female author has been honored in bronze -- Gertrude Stein --
who's on display in Bryant Park behind the N.Y. Public Library.
[Other female statues: Joan of Arc, eastside of Riverside Dr. & W. 93rd,
and Golda Meir, who wrote a memoir, on W. 39th St. & Broadway.
In contrast, male statues in N.Y.C. number 246.]

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Time Out N.Y.: Weekly Entertainment Guide Time Out NY@aol.com
Metrobeat's Literary Listings www.metrobeat.com
N.Y. Press, 295 Lafayette St., NYC 10012 themail@newyorkpress.com
New York Web Arts/ Readings www.nyw.com
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The New York Times www.nytimes.com

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