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New York's book culture sustains great writers and their work.

Keeping Literary Tradition Alive

Photo Gallery: New York Venues That Feed the Imagination

Reading and Writing in New York

In Search of Literary New York

Writers like Keith Gessen find themselves by running away to New York.

The Fabulous Strand Book Store

New York’s prototypical book store boasts “18 Miles of Books.”

An Around the World Reading

Writers converge on New York for PEN’s World Voices Festival of International Literature.

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Publications

Writers on America

U.S. writers reflect on how being American shapes their work.

My Town: Writers on American Cities

American writers on the cities they call home.

Outline of American Literature

Tracing the paths of American narrative fiction.

USA Literature in Brief

Surveys of American literature from pre-colonial days to the present.

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