New York stories by Paolo Cognetti, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Cheever, Richard Yates, Maeve Brennan, Ed Sanders, Oriana Fallaci, Grace Paley, Mario Maffi, Joan Didion, Don DeLillo, David Leavitt, Dorothy Parker, Mona Simpson, Nathan Englander, Colson Whitehead, Thomas Wolfe, Henry Miller, Mario Soldati, Zora Neale Hurston, Bernard Malamud, Nicholasa Mohr, Truman Capote