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| | | | | 199.8 in reply to 199.1 | |
This is New York by E B White
The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill
The Cricket in Times Square |
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| | | | | 199.9 in reply to 199.1 | |
Not sure if you mean New York state or city, but I've heard that The Day The Falls Stood Still is really good, it's about Niagara Falls and it's historical fiction. I haven't read it yet, but I'll get around to it. Also The Good Fairies of New York is really good, although it's fantasy so I'm not sure if your grandma would like it or not. |
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| | | | | 199.10 in reply to 199.1 | |
One of my favorite books of all time is Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell. It is a collection of the Mitchell's essays that appeared in the New Yorker in the 1940s - 60s. He mostly wrote about the city's byways and the oddballs that inhabited them: bohemians, street preachers, gypsies, Mohawk steel workers, fishermen, bearded ladies, etc.. His essay "Joe Gould's Secret" was recently made into a movie.
Ross Wetzsteon's Republic of Dream: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960 is also an excellent read with a real sense of place.
In fiction, it would be hard to beat The Stories of John Cheever.
Edited 10/20/2009 6:24 pm by the_shipper |
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| From: | joan41 | Oct-21 12:37 pm |
| To: | Dibba unread |
(11 of 11) | | | | 199.11 in reply to 199.10 | |
| A very interesting memoir about life in old New York City is "My New York," by Mabel Osgood Wright. She describes growing up in post-Civil War New York in the area around Washington Square. The writing is lively and the illustrations are charming. It was originally published in 1926. |
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