{"product_id":"9781911663027","title":"Literary Landscapes New York: A book-lover's tour of the city that never sleeps","description":"Author: Evan Joseph\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781911663027\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 30 Sep 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors’ neighbourhoods in the Big Apple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterary Landscapes: New York\u003c\/em\u003e is the follow-up to \u003cem\u003eLiterary Landscapes: Paris\u003c\/em\u003e and contains a familiar blend of 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor beloved bookstores there is the Argosy, dating to 1925 and the oldest in Manhattan, Three Lives \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLL:NYC\u003c\/em\u003e takes you inside restaurants and bars like Sardi’s – birthplace of the Tony Award; the Algonquin Hotel and the White Horse Tavern, Dylan Thomas’s last night out in the Big Apple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it comes to hotels, The Plaza appears in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s \u003cem\u003eThe Great Gatsby,\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterary locations are aplenty in New York – from \u003cem\u003eBreakfast at Tiffany’s\u003c\/em\u003e by Truman Capote to Washington Square by Henry James.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book takes a short trip up Long Island to visit Walt Whitman’s birthplace and while nothing but plaques remain of the New York homes that Herman Melville knew, we visit the literary giants buried alongside Melville in Woodlawn Cemetery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll these chapters are interspersed with telling quotes about the city that never sleeps.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46544546857118,"sku":"HPC-9781911663027","price":44.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781911663027.jpg?v=1771649339","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781911663027","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}