New York (N.Y.) - Social life and customs
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Old New York
$19.00 Add to cartFour novellas by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence, brilliantly capturing New York of the 1840s, ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s.
The four short novels in this collection are set in the N- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0020383142
- Language: English
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Humans of New York: Stories
$29.99 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times Bestseller
With over 500 vibrant, full-color photos, Humans of New York: Stories is an insightful and inspiring collection of portraits of the lives of New Yorkers. Humans of N- Author: Stanton, Brandon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 13, 2015
- ISBN10: 1250058902
- Language: English
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Gorilla, My Love
$15.00 Add to cartFifteen unforgettable short stories from an essential author of African American fiction gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old m… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries #0000
- Author: Bambara, Toni Cade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 30 1992
- ISBN10: 0679738983
- Language: English
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The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
$35.00 Add to cartA hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II.
Baseball is “the New- Author: Baker, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 05, 2024
- ISBN10: 0375421831
- Language: English
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The Fran Lebowitz Reader
$19.00 Add to cartIn the vein of Lebowitz’s acclaimed Netflix limited series, Pretend It’s a City—The Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together two of the famed author’s bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies.
In- Author: Lebowitz, Fran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 08, 1994
- ISBN10: 0679761802
- Language: English
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Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
$20.00 Add to cartDON’T MISS FX’s FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS–THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK–NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON HULU!
New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex we- Author: Leamer, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593328108
- Language: English
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The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
$38.99 Add to cartLonglisted for the National Book Award – Shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year Award – A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the low
- Author: Peiffer, Prudence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063097206
- Language: English
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Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
$30.00 Add to cartDON’T MISS FX’s FEUD: CAPOTE VS. THE SWANS–THE ORIGINAL SERIES BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK–NOW AVAILABLE TO STREAM ON HULU!
New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex we- Author: Leamer, Laurence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0593328086
- Language: English
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The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
$35.00 Add to cartA rollicking history of America’s most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers.
You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New- Author: Romano, Tricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 27, 2024
- ISBN10: 1541736397
- Language: English
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Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York
$28.99 Add to cartWhat could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch’s country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling tim
- Author: Weisberg, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 20, 2024
- ISBN10: 039353152X
- Language: English
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The New York Trilogy: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$20.00 Add to cartThe remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels – from the author of 4 3 2 1: A Novel
The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster’s work “one of the most distinctive niches- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 28 2006
- ISBN10: 0143039830
- Language: English
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The House of Mirth
$13.00 Add to cartA black comedy of manners about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. The beautiful Lily Bart lives among the nouveaux riches of New York City – people… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0140187294
- Language: English
