Wonderful Town

New York City is not onlyThe New Yorker's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood; it is the heart of American literary culture.Wonderful Towncollects superb short fiction by many of the magazine's and this country's most accomplished writers. Like all good fiction, these stories take particular places, particular people, and particular events and turn them into dramas of universal enlightenment and emotional impact. Here New York is every great place and every ordinary place. Each life in it, and each life inWonderful Town, is the life of us all.

David Remnick is the editor of <i>The New Yorker</i>. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for <b>Lenin's Tomb</b> and is also the author of <b>Resurrection and King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero</b>. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.<br>