By Steve Dollar

Jazz Guide: New York City is the only comprehensive guide to jazz in the Big Apple –now updated to include all the newest hot spots on the scene. Uptown, downtown. Big bands to subway soloists. Elegant clubs with big-name headliners to hole-in-the wall joints where the bands play all night. Jazz Guide profiles more than sixty venues where you can hear the best of every kind of jazz—big band, fusion, bebop, and funk; Creole, Afro-Caribbean, rhythm-and-blues, groove-oriented, and electronic music; Gallic, Arabic, and Brazilian acts; and music from drum cultures including the Caribbean, Latin America, West Africa.

Profiles of contemporary clubs are interwoven with listing of music festivals, specialty stores, jazz lore, including visits to Harlem and 52nd Street in their heydays, the famous bridge where Sonny Rollins moonlighted, and the neighborhood Louis Armstrong called home.

ISBN: 1892145437 • 176 pages • Paperback

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By Truman Capote
Introduction by George Plimpton

Truman Capote spent several years in the 1950s and 1960s in Brooklyn Heights, once telling a reporter: "It's the only place to live in New York." George Plimpton writes that "a love of history, gossip, character, and a skill at putting all this to words...brings Brooklyn Heights to life as vividly as any landscape Truman ever undertook to survey."

"A perfectly cut little jewel, refracting the lights of the Heights."—The Times (London)

ISBN: 1892145243 • 48 pages • Hardcover

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By E. B. White
Introduction by Roger Angell

E.B. White's remarkable, pristine essay, Here is New York, has been chosen by The New York Times as one of the ten best books ever written about the city.

"Just to dip into this miraculous essay—to experience the wonderful lightness and momentum of its prose, its supremely casual air and surprisingly tight knit—is to find oneself going ahead and rereading it all. White's homage feels as fresh now as fifty years ago."—John Updike

ISBN: 1892145022 • 56 pages • Hardcover

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By Harpo Marx
With Roland Barber
Introduction by E. L. Doctorow

Long before vaudeville, Broadway, and the silver screen, Harpo Marx triumphed on the greatest stage of all—New York City. Optimistic and wry, with an unforgettable cast of characters, and set against turn-of-the-century Manhattan, this is the delightful tale of a second-grade dropout.

"A real charmer."—Library Journal

"This enchanting memoir will make you regret every day you ever wasted going to school."—John Guare

ISBN: 1892145065 • 56 pages • Hardcover

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A guide to the century-old establishments of the city

By Ellen Williams & Steve Radlauer

Be fitted for a suit at Abraham Lincoln's haberdashery, visit the apothecary where Mark Twain filled his prescriptions, lunch at restaurants that once served Charles Dickens and Mae West. This guide directs you to the tobacconists, wine merchants, coffee roasters, jewelers, and pasta makers that have delighted New Yorkers and visitors alike for generations.

"This is a jewel box that yields the gems of a bygone era, polished afresh."—The Chicago TribuneISBN: 1892145154 • 350 pages • Hardcover

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