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`GREENWICH VILLAGE READER' FILLED WITH BOHEMIAN RHAPSODIES

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20020405
Author:Jill Casey, Globe Correspondent

Few other neighborhoods in the United States have had the influence on American music, literature, art, and culture that Greenwich Village has.

How to explain the extraordinary lure of the neighborhood? Artists, writers, and poets - Edna St. Vincent Millay, Henry James, Willa Cather, Max Eastman, among others - fled to crowded studios, shoebox flats, bookstores, and basement watering holes in this corner of New York City from the 1800s to the end of the 20th century, drawn inexorably to the boundaries of bohemia.

"The Greenwich Village Reader," a collection of essays, poems, short stories, ...

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