December 1968 Issue [Books] The writer and the city Download PDF Adjust Share by Alfred Kazin, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags American authors Chicago Chicago (Ill.) City and town life in literature Henry Adams Henry James History Illinois In literature New York New York (N.Y.) New York (State) Theodore Dreiser Walt Whitman Washington (D.C.) More from Alfred Kazin The Alone Generation A comment on the fiction of the ’fifties Joan Didion Portrait of a professional “Oates” Adjust Share