{"product_id":"9781911663027","title":"Literary Landscapes: New York : A Book-Lover’s Tour of the City That Never Sleeps","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Joseph, Evan \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eNew York\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 June 2025 by Harpercollins Publishers (Pavilion) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Literary Landscapes' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 160 pages\u003cbr\u003e232 x 198 x 18 | 634g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors’ neighbourhoods in the Big Apple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Literary Landscapes: New York is the follow-up to Literary Landscapes: Paris and contains a familiar blend of everything precious to the bibliophile – a blend of quirky bookstores, authors’ favourite bars, grand libraries, storied hotels, on- and off-Broadway theatres, New York residences and literary locations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e For beloved bookstores there is the Argosy, dating to 1925 and the oldest in Manhattan, Three Lives \u0026amp; Company in West Village, The Strand in East Village, The Corner Bookstore on the Upper East Side, the Alabaster Bookshop, and, stretching across to Brooklyn, the Greenlight Bookstore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e LL:NYC takes you inside restaurants and bars like Sardi’s – birthplace of the Tony Award; the Algonquin Hotel and the White Horse Tavern, Dylan Thomas’s last night out in the Big Apple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When it comes to hotels, The Plaza appears in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, but it is the Chelsea Hotel that has the most literary resonance. Mark Twain stayed there, Arthur Miller wrote there, as did Arthur C. Clarke and Simone de Beauvoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Literary locations are aplenty in New York – from Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote to Washington Square by Henry James.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book takes a short trip up Long Island to visit Walt Whitman’s birthplace and while nothing but plaques remain of the New York homes that Herman Melville knew, we visit the literary giants buried alongside Melville in Woodlawn Cemetery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e All these chapters are interspersed with telling quotes about the city that never sleeps.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55491528327554,"sku":"9781911663027","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9781911663027.jpg?v=1753749981","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.live\/products\/9781911663027","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}