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An irresistible anthology of classic tales of New York in the tradition of Christmas Stories, Love Stories, and Stories of the Sea.

Table of Contents

Jack Kerouac
New York Night Club—

O. Henry
The Making of a New Yorker

John Cheever
O City of Broken Dreams

Shirley Jackson
Pillar of Salt

Willa Cather
Paul's Case

Truman Capote
Master Misery

Edith Wharton
A Cup of Water

Bernard Malamud
The Magic Barrel

Damon Runyan
Social Error

Katherine Anne Porter
Theft

William Maxwell
The Thistles in Sweden

Maeve Brennan
A Snowy Night on West Forty-Ninth Street

James Baldwin
Sonny's Blues

Jean Stafford
Children Are Bored on Sunday

Jay McInerney
It's Six A.M. Do You Know Where You Are?

Edwidge Danticat
New York Day Women

Amy Hempel
Reference #388475848-5

Junot Díaz
Negocios

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of the Everyman's Pocket Classics anthologies Christmas Stories,Love Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories, Bedtime Stories, Stories of Motherhood, and Stories of the Sea, and ofthe Everyman's Library Pocket Poet anthologyLullabies and Poems for Children.