Southerners in NYC

Southerners in NYC collects for the first time fiction, nonfiction, memoir, and poetry that illuminates our understandings of both many of the greatest Southern writers and New York City itself. From 58-year resident of New York Donald Windham, who writes of his native Atlanta with the detached affection and insight that only an informed outsider can have, to short-term New Yorker Alan Gurganus, who writes of "finding the strength to leave", some came to stay while others only passed through. The cultural alliance between the city and the South is very strong and no more evident than through the many southern characters who were central to one of the greatest American literary movements -- the Harlem Renaissance.