+ Recommended Scholarly Readings

Thomas Bender, New York Intellect A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time (Johns Hopkins UP, 1987).

David M. Earle, All Man! Hemingway, 1950s Men’s Magazines, and the Masculine Persona (Kent State UP, 2009)

Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City” from The Practice of Everyday Life" (1980)

Vincent Di Girolamo Crying the News: A History of New York’s Newsboys (Oxford UP, 2019)

Brooks Hefner, The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism (Univ. of Virginia Press, 2017).

Catherine Keyser, Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture (Rutgers UP, 2010)

Tim Lanzendorfer (ed.) “Forum: The Metaphors We Use. American Periodicals (Spring 2020)

Karen Roggenkamp, Narrating the News: New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers and Fiction (Kent State UP, 2005)

Graham Thompson, Melville Among the Magazines (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2018)

+ Recommended Literature

Willa Cather “Wagner Matinee” [Everybody’s1904] and “Coming Eden Bower!” [Smart Set1920]

Teju Cole Open City (2012)

Stephen Crane “An Experiment in Misery” (1894)

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (1925)) and “My Lost City” (1931))

Allen Ginsberg “Kaddish” (1958))

Washington Irving “Rip Van Winkle” (1819))

James Joyce Ulysses [13th episode as it appeared in The Little Review] (1917)

Elizabeth Jordan “Ruth Herrick’s Assignment” [Cosmopolitan 1894])

Herman Melville “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1853) and “The Paradise of Bachelors” (1855)

Joseph Mitchell “McSorley’s: The Old House at Home” (1940) and “The Cave” (1952)(from Up in the Old Hotel)

Marianne Moore “Granite and Steel” (1966)

Frank O’Hara “The Day Lady Died” (1964)

Dorothy Parker “The Garter” (New Yorker 31 August 1928)

Lillian Ross “The Yellow Bus.” The New Yorker (13 August 1960)

Henry Slesar “Monster on Stage 4” (Amazing Stories 1957)

Carl Van Vechten The Blind Bow-Boy (1923) [ed. Kirsten MacLeod, MHRA 2018]

E.B. White “Here is New York” (Holiday Magazine 1948)

Edith Wharton New Year’s Day (1922)

Walt Whitman “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (1860)

FIRE!! A Magazine Devoted To Younger Negro Artists (1926)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman "If I Were a Man"