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Literary New York: A Guide



A - Upper West Side & Harlem
B - Upper East Side
C - Midtown
D - Murray Hill
E - Chelsea / Flatiron District / Gramercy Park
F - Greenwich Village & West Village
G - East Village
H - Soho
I - Financial District & Tribeca


This newly revised guide lists over a hundred literary sites and bookstores in Manhattan. Visit J. D. Salinger's boyhood home, drink with the ghost of Dylan Thomas at the White Horse Tavern or leave your own mark by participating in a poetry slam at the Nuyorican Poets Café.

To receive your copy, please send a Stamped Addressed Envelope (12 X 9) with 63 cents postage to the Small Press Center, 20 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036.

The publication of the original "Literary New York: A Guide" was possible through the generous support of Furthermore grants in publishing (a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund).

Many thanks to the Small Press Center Advisory Council members who compiled and edited the guide: Barbara Cohen, James Fitzgerald, Marcela Ann Smith and to Helene Silver for her expertise, and to Melanie James, Melissa Rafferty and Pallavi Sukhia for their help and input.

Special thanks to graphic designers Beth Crowell and Mark Chueng of Crowell and Chueng for contributing the design typesetting services for the updating of the map.

This third reprinting is possible through the generosity of an anonymous donor. The Small Press Center is an educational program of The General Society of Mechanics and Trademen.





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