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Article: Harvesting Big Apple's literary fruit
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 9, 1995
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REMARKABLE, UNSPEAKABLE NEW YORK
A Literary History
By Shaun O'Connell
Beacon, 377 pp., $27.50
Robert Taylor is the former chief book reviewer of the
Globe.
"New York City lies two hundred miles from Boston, the center of
my universe" reads the opening sentence of Shaun O'Connell's preface
to his vibrant literary history of Manhattan, "Remarkable,
Unspeakable New York." And it is precisely the dual vision of a
visitor's view of the city, involved yet detached, that lends the
chronicle its freshness and poise.
Like his previous "Imagining Boston: A Literary Landscape," "New
York" locates a literary legacy within the wider context of the
myth-making American imagination. ...
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