New York: The Big Apple Quote Book

By Bob Blaisdell

"A jaunty sampler of aphorisms." — Sam Roberts, The New York Times
"A fun book and a good buy and much easier to slip in a pocket than an iPad." — Brooklyn Eagle Daily Love it or hate it, everyone has an opinion on New York! This compact gift book is packed with more than 500 pithy comments, compliments, and criticisms about the city that never sleeps. It features short quotes from Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Robert Benchley, Helen Hayes, Lenny Bruce, Jane Jacobs, Fiorello La Guardia, and hundreds of others concerning skyscrapers, subways, Broadway, and other aspects of Big Apple life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Dec 10, 2013
• ISBN: 9780486320502

Bob Blaisdell

Bob Blaisdell is professor of English at the City University of New York’s Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn. He is author of Creating Anna Karenina: Tolstoy and the Birth of Literature's Most Enigmatic Heroine; Chekhov Becomes Chekhov: The Emergence of a Literary Genius; and Well, Mr. Mudrick Said . . . A Memoir. In addition, he is editor of more than three dozen literary anthologies.

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