Referenced In

Travels
by Baber, E. C. Baber, Michael Crichton

"“Startling and informative.… I was swept away not only by [Crichton’s] richly informed mind but his daring curiosity.” —New York Times Book Review"

Travels
by Baber, E. C. Baber, Michael Crichton

"Besides myself as the sole medical student, there was an intern named Bill Levine from New York, a first-year resident named Tom Perkins, and Dr. Rogers, the visiting chief resident."

Travels
by Baber, E. C. Baber, Michael Crichton

"There was an accountant with a portable radio and a big cigar who read the New York papers (he never spoke);"

"I’d be looking through catalogs and reading author bios, which mention living in New York but not in Queens."

"I was one of those New York kids who always wanted to go into book publishing."

"“Elaine, we need you on a red-eye for an early-morning presentation in New York.”"

"Later, I switch to being a children’s school librarian in New York and in Florida."

"Next, we’re reading The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, historical fiction set in Gilded Age New York about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene."

"Cuyahoga County Public Library has been named the number one library system in the country for twelve straight years in the same category as the New York public libraries and the Boston public libraries."

Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher

"There I started to notice something odd: The stories about Silicon Valley emanating from the New York media world were vastly different from those stories that I had heard at sleepaway camp and in computer rooms, and then later in barrooms and at Burning Man."

Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher

"After we land in New York we get picked up by a limousine and swept off to the Waldorf Towers."

Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher

"Steven Johnson: I had founded Feed in New York with some friends in May of ’95. We were the first digital-only magazine. We were coming out of this academic- and pop-culturally aware, somewhat left-y zine culture. And then Suck appeared."

Westworld
by Michael Crichton

"There was a writers’ strike at the time, so the commercial was written by Steve Frankfurt, a New York adman."

Congo
by Michael Crichton

"…one copy somehow (it is still unclear just how) fell into the hands of the Primate Preservation Agency, a New York group formed in 1975 to prevent the “unwarranted and illegitimate exploitation of intelligent primates in unnecessary laboratory research.”"

Prey
by Michael Crichton

"“Sounds great. Where?” “Armonk.” “New York?” I shook my head. “No way, Annie. What else?”"

Prey
by Michael Crichton

"Schelling, Thomas C. Micromotives and Macrobehavior. New York: Norton, 1978."

Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton

"All over. New York, Washington, Seattle, Chicago . . . all over."

Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton

"‘Head of Nakamoto America. Based in New York.’"

A Case Of Need
by Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Hudson

"Tokyo, Switzerland, Los Angeles, San Juan. Or perhaps you have a good friend in New York or Washington. That would be much more convenient. And cheaper."

Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton

"New York Dr. Richard Stone, head of the Tropical Diseases Laboratory of Columbia University Medical Center, often remarked that the name conjured up a grander place than it actually was."

Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton

"I've only seen an X-ray. The specimen is in New York. A woman from Columbia University called me."

Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton

"ARCHITECTS Dunning, Murphy & Associates, NewYork. Richard Murphy, design partner;Theodore Chen, senior designer;Sheldon James, administrative partner."

Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton

"The shorthand is the 'butterfly effect.' A butterfly flaps its wings in Peking, and weather in New York is different."

Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton

"“How Grant had received the fax from New York.”"

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"It was now four a.m. in New York, one a.m. in Los Angeles."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"New York, NY 1930–2000"

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"New York, NY 1822–2000 and New York City, a rise of 5 degrees Fahrenheit in a hundred seventy-eight years."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"Custom made. They called the tailor in New York and he confirmed that they had been made for George Morton."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"A typical speeded-up New York type—in every way Sarah’s opposite."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"We looked at stories in the newspapers of New York, Washington, Miami, Los Angeles, and Seattle."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"New York is 19,345,000."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"John Noble Wilford, “Deaths from DDT Successor Stir Concern,” New York Times, 21 August 1970, p. 1"

"ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1893"

"Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York."

The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan

"First electronic edition published 2003 by RosettaBooks LLC, New York."

Ask The Dust
by John Fante

"Edinburgh • London • New York • Melbourne"

Ask The Dust
by John Fante

"My agent in New York. He says I sold another one; he doesn’t say where, but he says he’s got one sold."

Ask The Dust
by John Fante

"Back East in New York Hackmuth would just now be entering his office."

Ask The Dust
by John Fante

"I could see them, those New York critics, crowding Hackmuth at his club."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"New York: what sense did that make? An eighteen-year-old girl from Silver Wells, Nevada, graduates from the Consolidated Union High School in Tonopah and goes to New York to take acting lessons, how do you figure it?"

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"he’s in from New York."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"She had not cried for her mother since the bad season in New York, the season when she had done nothing but walk and cry and lose so much weight that the agency refused to book her."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"“Mr. Goodwin, New York, three times, you’re to call immediately.”"

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"“This is Maria,” she said helplessly when Felicia Goodwin picked up the telephone in New York."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"the exact way the light came through the shutters in his bedroom in New York, the exact colors of the striped sheets she had put on his bed"

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"She had flown out from New York on Friday and then it was Sunday and Benny Austin was there for Sunday dinner and after dinner they would all drive down to Vegas to put Maria back on the airplane."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"In November the heat broke, and Carter went to New York to cut the picture, and Maria still had the dream."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"“I’m going to New York for a few days,” she said to Carter."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"It seemed that it was a hard time for abortions in New York, there had been arrests, no one wanted to do it."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"“Leonard’s in New York for ten days,” Helene said as soon as Maria had hung up the telephone."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"It was five o’clock in Los Angeles and eight in New York and he was drunk."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"New York: Viking, 1967."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"New York: Random House, 1990."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"New York: Random House, 1987."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"New York: Henry Holt, 1999."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"New York: Random House, 1992."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"New York: Viking, 1962."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"New York: Viking, 1996."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"instead of moving permanently to New York as she had been planning to do."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"though when her New York friends visited they went early to bed."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"Though the weekly letters still poured back to New York, the tone of them is serene, excited, amused, anything but homesick or desperate."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"It is all owned in Boston and Philadelphia and New York and London."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"She had been remembering all day how Christmas used to be at Milton, and how the whole week between Christmas and New Year used to be spent at receptions and house parties in New York."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"He wanted her to come on with them to New York, take a room there, and come back rested the next day, but she would not."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"Frank took him as far as Denver and put him on the Santa Fe and paid the porter to look after him to New York."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"with Oliver in New York an evening like this would simply not have happened"

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"I don’t want to take any of those long train rides to New York, where General Tompkins periodically got a fire going in some handful of damp financial shavings."

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

"She never felt quite well again. New York seemed cold and very far away."

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

"Maybe he could come to her in New York. He would think she had always lived in an elegant little house on the East Side."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"…in order to turn the wheel of the True Meaning, or Dharma, and gain merit for myself as a future Buddha (Awakener) and as a future Hero in Paradise. I was wandering the world (usually the immense triangular arc of New York to Mexico City to San Francisco)…"

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"…Japhy started telling his later life story, like when he was a merchant seaman in New York port and went around with a dagger on his hip…"

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"Just the faintest, faintest sound of big trucks rolling out the night on 301, about twelve miles away, and of course the distant occasional Diesel baugh of the Atlantic Coast Line passenger and freight trains going north and south to New York and Florida."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"That week I was all alone in the house, my mother had to go to New York for a funeral, and the others worked."

Mecca
by Susan Straight

"They go to festivals all over California, Nevada, even New York."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"I went to New York to enroll in Columbia University. Instead, I discovered the world of Times Square."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"I was on my way now to Chicago, briefly—from where I would go to freedom: New York!"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"It was here in New York, on a weekend, and the charming golden angel answered: ‘I would like to see the sunrise on Wall Street.’"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"CITY OF NIGHT  AND THEN THE DAY CAME IN NEW YORK when, standing on a street or in a park, I would see someone and wonder whether I had been with him—or just talked ..."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"From El Paso—knowing that my journey had somehow just begun—I had returned to New York. Again to the sexual anarchy...."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"I was out in the street with the jazzcat from New York wearing dark shades who had somehow turned up later at Destiny’s."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"It could even have been New York. Perhaps I had merely talked to him somewhere—Main Street, the park."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"…Lance was Famous from here to New York!—he'd been Pierce Flint’s lover, and he had affairs with Bruce Storm and Kipp Rugged—all those big Movie Stars…"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"the man who took me to his house in Evanston (and it was here that I had stopped on my way to New York, here that I had felt the restless compulsive anarchy those afternoons walking by the lake with my friend, now gone)."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"I came directly from New York—right after my last divorce"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"“I’ll be leaving New Orleans, right after Mardi Gras.... Back to New York. If you want, you can come with me. We can even leave now, before the Carnival is over.”"

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"He was in New York, but was talking, via satellite link, to the reporter who had sat down with Maureen Thompson."

The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

"Grove Press New York"

The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett

"She arrived last Tuesday, registering from New York. She hadn't a trunk, only some bags."

The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett

"Then I wasn't any better off than I had been before, because Floyd hadn't any intention at all of paying me the seven hundred and fifty pounds he had promised me. I had learned that by the time we got here. He said we would go to New York, where he would sell it and give me my share, but I could see he wasn't telling me the truth."

The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett

"Spade asked casually, "New York, aren't you?"

If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes

"All these riots in Detroit and New York and Chicago—it come from all this mixing up."

The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler

"A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC. NEW YORK"

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"I took a look outside of his white studio into the grimy New York streets below;"

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"I knew grey flannel was for New York only, but wouldn’t raw silk pass as the flannel of the desert?"

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"I flashed on the streets of New York, every person striding about: Don’t mug me! I am a serious person! Watch my briefcase! Watch my boots! Watch my …!"

The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle

"“I never had anything like this in New York, maybe a hurricane or something every ten years or so, a couple of trees knocked down, but this—”"

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"she might be starting a punk-rock group in New York called The Spider’s Web;"

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"I’m going to New York in April to check the rockabilly scene out."

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"then he’s going to go up to New York to do some shooting"

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"waiting for a phone call from Blair, who was leaving for New York the next morning for three weeks to join her father on location."

The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner

"Description: New York, NY : Scribner, 2018."

The Sellout
by Paul Beatty

"He said that the vast majority of slave revolts took place on Wednesdays because traditionally Thursday was whippin’ day. The New York Slave Revolt, the L.A. riots, the Amistad, all them shits,"

The Sellout
by Paul Beatty

"That like Paris has the Eiffel Tower, St. Louis the Arch, and New York an insanely huge income disparity, Dickens would have segregated schools."

Travels
by Baber, E. C. Baber, Michael Crichton

"Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York."

The Sellout
by Paul Beatty

"He lives in New York City."

Travels
by Baber, E. C. Baber, Michael Crichton

"Originally published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1988, and by Perennial, a division of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, in 2002."

Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith

"Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York"

Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith

"Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019."

Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton

"I've asked for the original fragment, which is in a lab in New York, to be flown here so that we can inspect it directly."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"It had been the first to pass anti-smoking laws, almost ten years before New York or any other Eastern state did."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"Legislation to address the crisis was passed in states from New York to California."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"New York, referenced in entry 6 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1904) and other entries."

The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler

"Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto."

Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler

"InNewYorkand NewJersey,ameaslesepidemiciskillingpeople. Measles!"

There There
by Tommy Orange

"Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018."

The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle

"Or old New York, anyway."

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto."

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, in 1985."

Travels
by Baber, E. C. Baber, Michael Crichton

"I had grown up in a suburb of New York City, where my father was a journalist."

Travels
by Baber, E. C. Baber, Michael Crichton

"Nothing like that was going on now. Not even in New York City!"

Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith

"Smith resides in New York City."

"In Staten Island, we are part of New York City, but we are literally an island unto ourselves."

"Fast-forward. I am happily married and living in New York City, enjoying a career at a big accounting firm as its national tax director, living the dream."

"She has worked around the country and now lives in New York City."

"I’m here from New York City and we’ve rented a house and there’s no printer. And there’s no other place that I can get my last will and testament printed."

Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher

"it took a writer from New York City to realize that this new class of creatives added up to a bona fide culture complete with its own lore, jokes, and ethic."

The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan

"‘You call Apple for New York. Frisco for San Francisco.’"

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"Carter had simply followed Maria around New York and shot film."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"Born in Sacramento, California, she lives in New York City."

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

"‘Do you know where the biggest market for oranges in the winter is?’ ‘New York City. I read that.’"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"“Children, Go Where I Send You,” special permission through arrangement with Unicorn Music Company, New York City;"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"This is only by way of saying that when I reached New York, that world was waiting for me. I required no slow initiation."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"…and I added to the shadows in one of those thousands of hallways in New York City in immense apartment houses erected in the large American cities before buildings grew tall and skinny."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"One sharply cold windy Sunday afternoon—the clouds sweeping the newyork sky like sheets—I saw him coming toward me where I was standing."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"Summer had come angrily into New York with the impact of a panting animal."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"“Don't pay attention to her, sonny,” the fatman says to me. “She's just in from New York,” he explains, indicating the skinny man, “and I told her she’d have to see Main Street.”"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"…all gorgeous modern furniture, original paintings (all the way from New York—drapes like in the Movies—everything!"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"“Have you been to New York?” “Twice,” I answered, still thinking of the electric island. “I never learned how to swim, though,” I said jokingly."

If He Hollers Let Him Go
by Chester Himes

"…but since the war he hasn't been able to leave his practice long enough for us to visit New York City for the season."

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"Later, when Lorna Villanelle had her picture up in New York subways with the caption, God loves you and so do I,"

There There
by Tommy Orange

"we come from Phoenix, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, New York City, Pine Ridge, Fort Apache, Gila River, Pit River, the Osage Reservation, Rosebud, Flathead, Red Lake, San Carlos, Turtle Mountain, the Navajo Reservation."

Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu

"recruited by the FBI, as well as several NYC billionaires to head private security"

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"He is a graduate of Bennington College and lives in New York City."

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

"I've not had such fine luck as you, by Jove! Things went confoundedly with me in New York; those Yankees are cool hands, and a man of gentlemanly feelings has no chance with them."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"…To get away. To visit Ireland or New York."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"Then Norton had to go to the boarding gate and half an hour later her plane took off for New York, where she would catch a connecting flight to London."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"Oscar Fate,' said Fate, 'of the magazine Black Dawn, from New York."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"…then he’d come back to New York and in five days he’d file the story."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"…Corona asked him what part of the United States he was from. “New York,” said Fate."

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"and then fly to New York, where everything would take on the consistency of reality again"

Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher

"We needed this video projector, and I think that year we rented it from some outfit in New York."

Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher

"and that was my entry into the New York avant-garde art scene."

Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher

"He had this school funded by government money for Vietnam vets returning from Vietnam. Alvy Ray Smith: New York Tech, or the “New York Institute of Technology,” as they are very careful to say these days."

Valley of Genius
by Adam Fisher

"Jordan Ritter: I was a paid hacker. I lived in downtown Boston, which was the center of hacking in the United States at the time: It wasn’t New York, it wasn’t LA, it wasn’t even Silicon Valley."

Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton

"Lenny. In New York. Over the backhaul."

Rising Sun
by Michael Crichton

"She's always traveling. New York, Washington, Seattle . . . she meets him. She's madly in love with him."

Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton

"Just to coordinate with the PR firms in San Francisco and London, and the agencies in New York and Tokyo, was a full-time job — especially since the agencies couldn't yet be told what the resort's real attraction was."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"Of course by 2050 our energy needs will triple, so maybe New York would be a better choice."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"…when they don’t even live in the same country as I do, but they still feel—in some far-off Western city, at a desk in some glass skyscraper in Brussels or Berlin or New York—they still feel that they know the solution to all my problems..."

State of Fear
by Michael Crichton

"Let’s think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: where would people get enough horses?"

"on arrival at New York, the lecture 'Tour,' as it is called, commenced"

"PHILADELPHIA PUBLISHED BY BRADFORD AND INSKEEP; AND ABM. H. INSKEEP, NEW YORK. J. Maxwell, Printer 1814."

"PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY BRADFORD AND INSKEEP; AND ABM. H. INSKEEP, NEW YORK. J. Maxwell, Printer. 1814."

"the old Northwest company of Canada have, within the last two years, formed a union with the Newyork company, who had previously been the only important rivals in the fur trade; this company... formed a connexion with a British house in Newyork."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"New York and London, 1857."

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"this replica was deposited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the City of New York, as a loan, on the 16th of June, 1908."

The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan

"The tests got harder—multiplying numbers in my head, finding the queen of hearts in a deck of cards, trying to stand on my head without using my hands, predicting the daily temperatures in Los Angeles, New York, and London."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"Les Goodwin in New York"

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"“When Les Goodwin called from New York the next morning at seven o’clock she began to cry again.”"

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"Sometimes the contact was Freddy Chaikin, sometimes an F.B.I. man she had met once in New York and not thought of since."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"‘There’s some principle I’m not grasping, Maria,” Carter said on the telephone from New York."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"Just that. Carter called from New York and told BZ."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"the three thousand miles that had seemed no more than the distance from Milton to New York revealed themselves as a continent."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"While Susan studied in New York and shuttled back and forth across the continent, Bessie looked after the home place."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"…the creamy one with the five petals is some kind of cinquefoil, I knew something very like it back home in New York."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"… that when we return next month you and Thomas will be back in New York."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"General Tompkins has already lined up backing from Pope and Cole. We’re talking to them in New York tomorrow."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"I have watched with admiration how you two first created a place for yourselves in New York and then molded and shaped it within a world of art and ideas."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"Oliver, having just returned from New York, has had to turn around and start back, to confer with General Tompkins and two members of the London syndicate."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"He saw his father once or twice a year in New York."

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

"now he bought every book about war, read every report, subscribed to the New York papers, studied maps."

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

"‘Prettiest thing you ever saw. Had little tiny feet. Bought all her clothes in New York.’"

East of Eden
by John Steinbeck

"Adam stopped in New York long enough to buy clothes for himself and Cathy before they climbed on the train which bore them across the continent."

The Dharma Bums
by Jack Kerouac

"…the best soup I'd eaten since I was a lionized young author in New York eating lunch at the Chambord or in Henri Cru's kitchen."

Fat City
by Leonard Gardner

"Die Originalausgabe unter dem Titel FAT CITY erschien 1969 bei Farrar, Straus & Giroux in New York."

Mecca
by Susan Straight

"Every Friday at nine a.m., Mrs. Bunny called a woman named Anne-Marie, the phone on speaker, propped against the mirror. She would say, “Anne-Marie, it’s lunchtime in New York.”"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"By now winter was approaching in New York. Hurricanes and threats of hurricanes had stopped, and the air was clear."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"That was during another one of my periods in New York. Things were not going too well—uh—financially."

City of Night
by John Rechy

"“Even in New York,” said the skinny one, “everyone knows about him. I heard hes got this great pool—boys there all the time. I heard—”"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"“Well,” said the blond one, propping an elbow on the bar, hand dangling loosely from the wrist like a tulip, “he did go to New York. He was going to do a Show—but—”"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"…the threat of meeting someone who looks perfectly “normal” and who turns out to be psycho—like the man in the raincoat in New York who had pulled a knife on me…"

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"…the one daughter who called to check in every week, she lived in New York."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"“It’s an old book I found on my grandpa’s bookshelf when we stopped to visit him in New York,” Max said."

The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen

"Of American cities, she believed New York was where she wanted to live if she could not live in Los Angeles."

The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett

"Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., New York and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada, Ltd., Toronto."

The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett

"That was in New York."

The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett

"I will give you twenty-five thousand dollars when you deliver the falcon to me, and another twenty-five thousand as soon as I get to New York;"

The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett

"Spade learned that the Gutman party had arrived at the hotel, from New York, ten days before, and had not checked out."

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"…to say that people lived all over, in midwestern sod huts, and in Florida swamps, and especially in the great canyons of New York, where an entire cranky tribe survives underground, and the Dirty Dozens are their stories!"

2666
by Roberto Bolaño

"… this one is for the feminists of New York (you’re going to kill him, shouted Norton)…"

Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith

"Valentine’s Day was the coldest on record in New York City’s history. A complex mantle of frost covered everything, bare branches strung with a symphony of frozen hearts."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"Carter was driving too fast because he had to meet Freddy Chaikin and a writer from New York at Chasen’s at seven o’clock."

Play It As It Lays
by Joan Didion

"For almost two hours she studied an old issue of Vogue she picked up in the poolhouse, her attention fixed particularly on the details of the life led in New York and Rome by the wife of an Italian industrialist."

Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner

"the Clarendon Hotel heard the accents of Boston, New York, and London."

Fat City
by Leonard Gardner

"»Gardner erzählt so überzeugend, dass wir uns nur an ihre Hoffnungen erinnern, nicht an ihre Niederlagen.« The New York Review of Books »FAT CITY hat mich mehr bewegt als die gesamte Gegenwartsliteratur der letzten Jahre.« Joan Didion"

City of Night
by John Rechy

"Now the nights began to warm up. It’s that magnificent interlude in New York between winter and spring, when you feel the warmth stirring, and you remember that the dreadful naked trees will inevitably sprout tiny green buds, soon."

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"After the day of the clumsy jump I realized I wasn’t built to live in New York. It was the greatest city in the world, but I couldn’t get on its pretty side."

Golden Days
by Carolyn See

"I ask you, wherever you were then—in Indiana, lining up at the Dairy Queen; in Beloit, Wisconsin, driving out to watch the lights of the A&W Root Beer stand reflected on the river. If you were in New York City, in that genital softness of May and June, didn’t you know, in your heart, that we were safe?"