Literary Landscapes: New York
By Evan Joseph

A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors' neighbourhoods in the Big Apple.Literary Landscapes: New Yorkand is the follow-up toand Literary Landscapes: Parisand and contains a familiar blend ofand 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.Forand beloved bookstoresand there is the Argosy, dating to 1925 and the oldest in Manhattan, Three Lives andamp; 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:NYCand takes you insideand restaurants and bars like Sardi'sand - birthplace of the Tony Award; the Algonquin Hotel and the White Horse Tavern, Dylan Thomas's last night out in the Big Apple.When it comes toand hotels,and The Plaza appears in F. Scott Fitzgerald'sand The Great Gatsby,and 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 aplentyand in New York - fromand Breakfast at Tiffany'sand by Truman Capote to Washington Square by Henry James.The book takes a short trip up Long Island to visitand Walt Whitman's birthplace and while nothing but plaques remain of the New York homes that Herman Melville knew, we visit theand literary giantsand buried alongside Melville in Woodlawn Cemetery.All these chapters are interspersed with telling quotes about the city that never sleeps.