As an European, I'm going to NYC this summer for the first

Paul Auster - New York Trilogy
Rachel Kushner - The Flamethrowers
Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City
Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn

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V. - Thomas Pynchon
The Recognitions - William Gaddis

The Great Gatsby

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American Psycho

he rapes his sister, phoebe

thank you!

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like a slightly dumber-than-average HBO drama set in boho manhattan, immersive but deadening, so it's good nyc prereading

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"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison. It's about an unnamed protagonists Dante-esque trip through New York. It was written at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and really captures the jazz and racial issues at the root of Harlem.

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Manhattan Transfer

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Go to The Strand, its pretty cool