W. D. Howells in the News
Sunday, June 05, 2005
The W. D. Howells in the News Site has moved to http://howellsinthenews.blogspot.com, although the archives of posts prior to May 2005 will remain here. To see newer posts, please click on the above address.
From Randy Cohen, "We Mapped Manhattan," in The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/books/review/05RAND01.html? (free registration required):
Some mysteries remain -- the apartment of J. D. Salinger's nomadic Glass family, who seem to move from East to West Side; the address of the Xenophon, where William Dean Howells's March family found a sublet in ''A Hazard of New Fortunes.'' Nor could we confidently pin down the office of Bartleby the Scrivener, despite many good suggestions from readers, including Ann Sullivan-Cross's. Having had a job at 14 Wall Street -- ''like working in a dead letter office, at the depths of a dark world governed by dark laws'' -- she felt sure she recognized the spot; she pointed out, moreover, that Melville's brother Allan had a law office at that address.
