Wonderful Town: New York City Stories from the New Yorker

The best New Yorker short fiction set in Manhattan celebrates the Big Apple through the words of J. D. Salinger, Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Philip Roth, Woody Allen, Jamaica Kincaid, John Cheever, and Bernard Malamud. Simultaneous.

Morton, Timothy Jerome, and Maria Tucci
Six Cassettes, 10 hours

Anthologized from the reigning literary magazine of the century - and in honor of its 75th anniversary - the finest short stories about the greatest city in the world.

Wonderful Town is the second half of our celebration of The New Yorker's 75th anniversary, masterfully anthologizes a selection of the greatest short stories written this century.  While the individual stories differ widely in their theme and tone, all share the common thread of taking place in and around New York City.  However, this anthology is as much about the writing as the venue and will make fascinating listening for all.  In the authors' capable imaginations, the city itself is not just a setting but a character itself, with the kind of range and impact that any major literary character achieves.  Like New York, Wonderful Town contains the ano