Newspaper writers get side-by-side billing with the literary elect in this thoughtful, nicely bound anthology, which is a comprehensive literary gathering of writing inspired by the city. Perhaps only newspaper writers will find a... Read More

The Iroquois Theatre opened on November 23, 1903, in downtown Chicago. It was called a “virtual temple of beauty” with its foyer patterned after the Opéra Comique in Paris, its enormous stage (fifty feet deep and 110 feet wide), and... Read More

The alphabet emerges from famous sights and sounds in New York City. This rhythmic tour takes visual poetry to a new level. Children are encouraged to spell out the names of well-known buildings, bridges, and people while searching amid... Read More

Winner of the 1998 New York University Press Prize for Fiction, this is the story of an escaped slave’s life and his people’s ways in the sugar isles during the latter half of the eighteenth century. Born in Guinée, but captured as... Read More

A prolonged exercise in grief and respect for the dead, "My Cemetery Friends" gathers poetry and prose pieces that are rooted in a singular place. Set in a relaxing, green pedestrian refuge surrounded by a noisy urban environment,... Read More

New York City’s dark and dank subway tunnels are James Kelly’s specialty. In this true story, James, an Irish immigrant in the early 1900s, makes a name for himself by detecting hazardous leaks and preventing scores of explosions,... Read More