In this episode of Salon Evocations, Sophia Basaldua-Sun and Kim Coates discuss literature related to New York City, focusing on female authorship and the 20th-century. They discuss a work they both read for this episode, Willa Cather’s short story “Behind the Singer Tower” - which is linked below - as well as other writers such as Sylvia Plath, Nella Larsen, and Edith Wharton who set their work in New York or who were shaped as authors by the city. Sophia and Kim also discuss their experience with the New York City literary scene and what stands out to them as making the city a thriving place to be a writer and reader. 

LINK

“Behind the Singer Tower” https://cather.unl.edu/writings/shortfiction/ss045