I don’t quite remember how I came across this lovely site, but I know that The Millions posted about it recently too.
Books take place all over the world, of course, but some cities get the mentioned over and over again. New York City is one of those cities. There are books, poems, characters, addresses — all sorts of things, both vague mentions and specifics — that deal with NYC.
So The New York Times put together this wonderful interactive map of Manhattan:
Literary Map of Manhattan: “Here’s where imaginary New Yorkers lived, worked, played, drank, walked, and looked at ducks.”

















