Wonderful town: New York stories from The New Yorker

The five-forty-eight / John Cheever

Distant music / Ann Beattie

Sailor off the Bremen / Irwin Shaw

Physics / Tama Janowitz

The whore of Mensa / Woody Allen

What it was like, seeing Chris / Deborah Eisenberg

Drawing Room B / John O'Hara

A sentimental journey / Peter Taylor

The balloon / Donald Barthelme

Smart money / Philip Roth

Another marvellous thing / Laurie Colwin

The failure / Jonathan Franzen

Apartment hotel / Sally Benson

Midair / Frank Conroy

The catbird seat / James Thurber

Snowing in Greenwich Village / John Updike

I see you, Bianca / Maeve Brennan

You're ugly, too / Lorrie Moore

Symbols and signs / Vladimir Nabokov

Poor visitor / Jamaica Kincaid

In Greenwich, there are many gravelled walks / Hortense Calisher

Some nights when nothing happens are the best nights in this place / John McNulty

Slight rebellion off Madison / J.D. Salinger

Brownstone / Renata Adler

The cafeteria / Isaac Bashevis Singer

Partners / Veronica Geng

The evolution of knowledge / Niccolo Tucci

The way we live now / Susan Sontag

Do the windows open? / Julie Hecht

The Mentocrats / Edward Newhouse

The treatment / Daniel Menaker

Arrangement in black and white / Dorothy Parker

Carlyle tries polygamy / William Melvin Kelley

Children are bored on Sunday / Jean Stafford

Notes from a bottle / James Stevenson

Man in the middle of the ocean / Daniel Fuchs

Mespoulets of the splendide / Ludwig Bemelmans

Over by the river / William Maxwell

Baster / Jeffrey Eugenides

The second tree from the corner / E.B. White

Rembrandt's hat / Bernard Malamud

Shot : a New York story / Elizabeth Hardwick

A father-to-be / Saul Bellow

Farewell, my lovely appetizer / S.J. Perelman.