We are excited to celebrate the publication of New York: A Literary Anthology, edited by J. Michelle Coghlan.

The city that never sleeps is brought to life in this vivid anthology which captures the heady highs and formidable lows of New York: its people, places and unique history. Michelle will be in conversation with Monica B. Pearl, and there will be readings from the anthology.

Doors: 6.30pm, Start: 6.45pm

Tickets are £4 or admission is free when purchasing a Book & Ticket option or a copy of the book in store ahead of the event.

About the Anthology:

One sweltering summer’s day, Charles Dickens passes through Wall Street. James Weldon Johnson’s anonymous narrator stumbles into a hidden bar full of poker players. Mark Twain recalls a dinner held in seven different languages. Anaïs Nin declares that she is in love…with the city itself.

New York has lived through immense challenges yet remains irrepressible, filled with constant energy, movement and excitement. All these different perspectives are captured by the prose and poetry of a wonderful range of writers including Audre Lorde, Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Henry James, Langston Hughes and many more.

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library series of gorgeous pocket-sized travel paperbacks, featuring Treasures of Cornwall, Yorkshire: A Literary Landscape, London: An Illustrated Literary Companion and Paris: A Literary Anthology. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.

About the Editor:

J. Michelle Coghlan is a writer and academic who teaches American Studies at the University of Manchester. She has called a number of cities home—among them, Providence, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Paris—but she fell under New York’s spell during many years of living a very short train ride away during her years as a grad student at Princeton. She is author of the prize-winning Sensational Internationalism: the Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth-Century, and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food. Her new book, Louise Michel in America: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Radicalism on the Move, is forthcoming from Rutgers UP.