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Edgar Allen Poe

Poe s presence lingers in the streets of New York; the gothic writer s style emerged at the end of the 19th century, leaving a century of authors in his wake. The heavy atmosphere attributed to Poe s New York has long since crumbled under the weight of modernity, but the city makes plenty of tributes to the writer, and none is more fitting than Poe cottage in Poe Park, East Kingsbridge Road and Grand Course, Bronx. The little wooden cottage centred amongst the over-bearing buildings feels like the tone of many of his short stories; mystical and tension riddled.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allen Poe

E.L. Doctrow

Doctrow always felt like Poe s natural successor; both captured the unusually jaded aspects of New York that gets lost amongst the roar of human consciousness. Doctrow s work retrospectfully inspects New York s soul, and we are constantly given a post-modernist perspective about the tension of New York life. Doctrow, from the Bronx and named after Poe, is one of the more vocal members of the New York literary scene, he is renowned for his natural wit, and talent at handling interviews with a noble decorum.

History is the present. That s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. E.L. Doctrow

Dorothy Parker

No person, fiction or otherwise, embodied New York like Dorothy Parker embodied New York; Jewels from Tiffany s, parties on the 12th floor of some luxurious hotel, dresses, scarves and hats from 5th Avenue, poetry in cafes, witty and charming but cutting, I could go on. The woman spent the majority of her life moving from apartment to apartment.

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. Dorothy Parker

Eugene O Neil l

A commemorative plaque on 1500 Broadway, Northeast corner of 43rd & Broadway simply states ....Eugene O Neill, October 16, 1888 November 27, 1953 America s greatest playwright was born on this site then called Barrett Hotel, Presented by Circle in the Square..... Deeply passionate about his work, O Neill filled his plays with a melancholy that seems to plague all Irish-American writers. His plays read like novels, as he was a notorious control freak and use to dictate every action between the dialogues. The Eugene O Neill Theatre on Broadway however, is not producing any of his plays at the moment, which seems like a shame considering the sheer volume of work the man has.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. Eugene O Neill

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