James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy, 1965. A would-be hustler
befriends a dying pauper.
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wall Street corruption,
moral and financial.
Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, Barbarians at the Gate: the
Fall of RJR Nabisco, 1990. The inception of contemporary
financial folly on Wall Street.
Joan Didion, Goodbye to All That, 1967. An essay on loving
and leaving New York.
Hilton Als, The Women, 1996. Growing up black and gay in
Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Patti Smith, Just Kids, 2011. Smith���s memoir of her friendship
with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
O. Henry, Gift of the Magi, 1906. an endearing tale of love,
sacrifice and hope among New Yorkers of slender means.
James Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain, 1952. Semiautobiographical Harlem story.
Louis Auchincloss, East Side Story,2004. New York patricians.
Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966. Essays on modern
New York culture by a quintessential New York intellectual,
1961-1965. H
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