New York City has embodied the paradoxes of modernity since its emergence as a world capital in the late nineteenth century. It has been described as a democratic vista of opportunity and a restless hub of inequality, a utopian urban dwelling and a technocratic nightmare.
This blog records the pilgrimage of a group of writers through literary and architectonic
New York. Drawing on the works of Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Ellison, Jonathan Lethem, Truman Capote, Don Delillo, E. B. White, Joan Didion, Jean Baudrillard, Frank O'Hara, and others, the entries that follow will explore the cultural meaning of the city's representations.
