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The Reader

Fiction, , and Reminiscences, 1872-2002

Edited by June Skinner Sawyers

^Cooper Square Press Contents

A Select Village Chronology xvii Introduction xxiii

JAMES D. McCABE 1 from Lights and Shadows of New York Life: or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City (1872) 1 CHARLES DeKAY 6 from The Bohemian: A Tragedy of Modern Life (1878) 6 HENRY JAMES 14 from Washington Square (1880) 14 WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS 23 from The Coast of Bohemia (1893) 23 O. HENRY 38 The Last Leaf (1902) 38 JOHN REED 45 The Day in Bohemia, or Life Among the Artists (1913) 46 Forty-Two Washington Square (1913) 49 Harry Kemp (1913) 50 51 from The "Genius" (1905) 51 HARRY KEMP 79 A Poet's Room: Greenwich Village 1912 (1912) 80 Street Lamps: Greenwich Village (1912) 81 Leaves of Burdock (1914) 82

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HIPPOLYTE HAVEL 83 The Spirit of the Village (January 20,1915) 83 DJUNA BARNES 87 Greenwich Village As It Is (October 1916) 87 ANNA ALICE CHAPIN 95 from Greenwich Village (1917) 95 SINCLAIR LEWIS 114 from "Hobohemia" (April 1917) 114 WILLA CATHER 126 Coming, Aphrodite! (1920) 126 168 from History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays (1920) 168 EDITH WHARTON 184 from The Age of Innocence (1920) 184 GUIDO BRUNO 195 from Fragments from Greenwich Village (1921) 195 EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY First Fig (1922) Macdougal Street (1922) Weeds (1922) ALFRED KREYMBORG from Troubadour: An Autobiography (1925) HAROLD E. STEARNS from The Street I Know (1935) CAROLINE F. WARE from Greenwich Village 1920-1930 (1935) MABEL DODGE from Movers and Shakers: Intimate Memories (1933-1937) HUTCHINS HAPGOOD from A Victorian in the Modern World (1939)

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JOSEPH MITCHELL 237 Professor Sea Gull (December 12,1942) 237 257 Rents Were Low in Greenwich Village (1947) 257 MILTON KLONSKY 267 Greenwich Village: Decline and Fall (November 1948) 267 MALCOLM COWLEY 281 from Exile's Return (1951) 281 JO DAVIDSON 294 from Between Sittings: An Informal Autobiography (1951) 294 297 from Who Walk in Darkness (1952) 297 JOHN CLELLON HOLMES 309 from Go (1952) 309 316 from My Life and Loves in Greenwich Village (1954) 317 DAWN POWELL 330 from The Wicked Pavilion (1954) 330 LIONEL TRILLING 337 from A Gathering of Fugitives (1956) 337 CAROLINE BIRD 345 Born 1930: The Unlost Generation (February 1957) 345 NORMAN PODHORETZ 359 The Know-Nothing Bohemians (Spring 1958) 359 JOHN UPDIKE 373 Snowing in Greenwich Village (1959) 374 JANE JACOBS 384 from The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) 384 DAN BALABAN 390 The 'Gypsy' Lady Who Fed Bohemia (1962) 390

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HOWARD SMITH 398 : Off the Road, Into the Vanguard, and Out (1962) 398 401 from Love and Revolution (1964) 402 JACK KEROUAC 412 from Desolation Angels (1965) 413 MAEVE BRENNAN 420 from The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from (March 18,1967) 420 SEYMOUR KRIM 425 from Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer (1968) 425 DIANE DiPRIMA 432 from Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969) 432 ANAIS NIN 440 from The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume 3,1939-1944 (1969) 440 JOHN GRUEN 445 from The Party's Over: Reminiscences of the Fifties (1972) 445 MICHAEL HARRINGTON 457 from Fragments of the Century: A Social Autobiography (1973) 458 477 from The Twenties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period {1975) 477 MAX GORDON 481 from Live at the Village Vanguard (1980) 481 JOYCE JOHNSON 490 from Minor Characters: A Young Woman's Coming of Age in the (1983) 490 MADISON SMARTT BELL 495 from The Washington Square Ensemble (1984) 495

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ALLEN GINSBERG 510 The Old Village Before I Die (1984) 511 JUDITH MALINA 512 from The Diaries of Judith Malina 1947-1957 (1984) 512 RONALD SUKENICK 519 from Down and In: Life in the Underground (1987) 519 EDMUND WHITE 554 from The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) 555 HAROLD NORSE 572 from Memoirs of a Bastard Angel (1989) 573 HERBERT HUNCKE 582 from Guilty of Everything (1990) 582 HETTIE JONES 585 from How I Became Hettie Jones (1990) 585 DAN WAKEFIELD 590 from New York in the 1950s (1992) 590 MARY MCCARTHY 607 from Intellectual Memoirs: New York 1936-1938 (1992) 607 617 from Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir (1993) 617 HERBERT GOLD 624 from Bohemia: Where Art, Angst, Love, and Strong Coffee Meet (1993) 624 MARY CANTWELL 638 from , When I Was Young (1995) 638 ETHAN MORDDEN 643 from How Long Has This Been Going On? (1995) 643 FRANK O'HARA 652 Night Thoughts in Greenwich Village (1995) 653 Washington Square (1995) 654

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GREGORY CORSO 655 Greenwich Village Suicide (1998) 656 Birthplace Revisited (1998) 656 St. Luke's, Service for Thomas (1998) 657 SAMUEL MENASHE 658 At Millay's Grave (2000) 659 Transplant (2000) 660 Promised Land (2000) 660 Dusk (2000) 661 The Dead of Winter (2000) 661 At a Standstill (2000) 661 Improvidence (2000) 662 EDWARD HOAGLAND 663 from Compass Points: How I Lived (2001) 663 PAUL COLBY 671 from The Bitter End: Hanging Out at America's Nightclub (2002) 671 BARNEY ROSSET 692 from Misc.: Subject Is Left-handed 693

Village Writers, Etc. 700 Select Village Literary Sites 711 Further Reading 714 Sources & Permissions 723

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