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Tytell, John, author.

Reading New York / John Tytell.

First edition.

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

xii, 337 pages ; 23 cm

Part biography, part memoir, part belles lettres--this wonderful book celebrates the act of reading, the writers whose work awakened the soul of a young man growing up in New York in the 1940s and 1950s, and the history of the city itself.

Tytell, John -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.

Tytell, John -- Childhood and youth.

Tytell, John -- Books and reading.

American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.

Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.

Refugee children -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.

English teachers -- United States -- Biography.

New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.

New York (N.Y.) -- In literature.

Biographies.

In part autobiographical.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-320) and index.

Also issued online.

Pt. 1. "My Little Dutch Boy" -- 1. Forbidden Pleasure -- 2. A Lowlands Confluence -- 3. Chronometricals and Horologicals -- 4. King Solomon's Sons -- 5. Jerusalem -- 6. An Oligarch's Household -- 7. A Natural Anthropologist -- 8. An Amazonian Flood -- 9. A Morality Tale -- 10. Annihilation -- 11. Safe in Holmes -- 12. Dr. God -- 13. Lena -- 14. Le poete maudit -- 15. Nincompoops and Dunderheads -- 16. "Death is the mother of beauty" / Wallace Stevens -- Pt. 2. Whitman's Lovers -- 17. Early Erotics -- 18. Elementary Education -- 19. Frauke -- 20. Gymnastics -- 21. A Perfect Writer -- 22. A Quaker Renegade -- 23. Cheering Slaves -- 24. American Transcendentalists -- 25. Whitman's City -- 26. The Daydreamer -- 27. Jilted -- Pt. 3. My Two Henrys -- 28. Sexual Blasphemy -- 29. An Autodidact of the Bedroom -- 30. The Frozen Fifties -- 31. A Brooklyn Childhood -- 32. The Imperial City -- 33. Beatrice -- 34. June -- 35. Anais -- 36. A Shot of Brandy! -- 37. Henry James's Biographer -- 38. The Emergency Room -- 39. Henry's Telegram -- 40. The Elephant and the Arachnid -- 41. The Palace of Art -- 42. The Infernal Zoo -- 43. In the Cage -- Pt. 4. New York Beat -- 44. Mellon -- 45. Genealogies -- 46. A Radical Reader -- 47. The Date Tree -- 48. Perry Street -- 49. A Continuing American Revolution -- 50. On the Road -- 51. A Melvillean Warrior -- 52. The Beat Brotherhood -- 53. Dirty Newspaper -- 54. A Bloodcurdling Howl -- 55. A Queer Shoulder -- 56. The Cannibal Dynamo -- 57. Colvin Hill -- 58. Mexico -- 59. San Cristobal.

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