A Coney Island Reader : : Through Dizzy Gates of Illusion / / ed. by John Parascandola, Louis Parascandola.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Kevin,; Barnes, Djuna,; Bishop, William Henry,; Butler, Robert Olen,; Carryl, Guy Wetmore,; Cautela, Giuseppe,; Crane, Stephen,; Cummings, E. E.,; Ducovny, Amram,; Ferlinghetti, Lawrence,; Gallienne, Richard Le,; Gorky, Maxim,; Hall, Sarah,; Heller, Joseph,; Henry, O.,; Hoagland, Edward,; Holley, Marietta,; Huneker, James,; Israels, Belle Lindner,; Johnson, Josephine W.,; Kauffman, Reginald Wright,; Lyon, Peter,; Malamud, Bernard,; Martí, José,; McHugh, Maureen F.,; Miller, Henry,; Moses, Robert,; Peiss, Kathy,; Ralph, Julian,; Schwartz, Delmore,; Shanly, Charles Dawson,; Teasdale, Sara,; Thomas, Donald,; Thompson, Frederic,; Tilyou, Edward F.,; Todd, George,; Torres, Edwin,; Whitehead, Colson,; Whitman, Walt,; Yurick, Sol,
• HerausgeberIn: Parascandola, John,; Parascandola, Louis,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) :; ‹B›B&W Illus.: ‹/B›25.

Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe--this anthology is the first to focus on the unique history and transporting experience of a beloved fixture of the New York City landscape.Moody, mystical, and enchanting, Coney Island has thrilled newcomers and soothed native New Yorkers for decades. With its fantasy entertainments, renowned beach foods, world-class boardwalk, and expansive beach, it provides a welcome respite from the city's dense neighborhoods, unrelenting traffic, and somber grid. Coney Island has long offered a kaleidoscopic panorama of people, places, and events, creating, as Lawrence Ferlinghetti once wrote, "a Coney Island of the mind." This anthology captures the highs and lows of that sensation, with works that imagine Coney Island as a restful resort, a playground for the masses, and a symbol of America's democratic spirit, as well as a Sodom by the sea, a garish display of capitalist excess, and a paradigm of urban decay. As complex as the city of which it is a part, Coney Island engenders limitless perspectives, a composite inspiring everyone who encounters it to sing its electric song.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the text -- Selected chronology of coney island -- [Clam-Bake At Coney Island] -- Acconey Island -- To Coney Island -- Coney Island -- Coney Island'S Failing Days -- Coney Island -- Marvelous Coney Island -- Human Need Of Coney Island -- Boredom -- The Master Showman of Coney Island -- Amusing the Million -- The way of the girl -- Why Is Coney? -- The Coney Island Excursion -- Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand other Islands -- Coney Island -- The Greater Coney -- Dreamland -- In Dreams begin Responsibilities -- Sunday -- Ruins Help Draw 350,000 To Coney -- The Tingling, Tangling Tango as 'Tis Tripped at Coney Isle -- New Cosmopolis -- Human Nature with the Brakes Off-Or: Why the Schoolma'Am Walked into the sea -- Coney -- Coney Island -- Into the Night Life -- Now and then -- The Electric Michelangelo -- Attachment to Letter to Mayor Fiorello Laguardia -- To Heaven by Subway -- Coney -- Stranger At Coney Island -- A Coney Island of the Mind -- The Warriors -- Coney Island in November -- My son the Murderer -- Mayor Blasts ta Brass on Coney Island Debacle -- Kwan'S Coney Island -- Coney Island 1969 -- Coney Island -- A Coney island of the mind -- City Planning Begins Public Review on Rezoning of Coney Island -- Comments on the Revised Draft Scope of Analysis for Coney Island Rezoning Project -- Confessions of a Coney Island Sideshow Performer -- A Coney Island of the Mind -- Appendix -- Permissions -- Foreword -- Introduction