Well, we’ve dropped the manuscript for our Cambridge Companion to the Literatures of New York City — the size of a ream of paper — in the mail to our editor. [Insert huge sigh of relief.] We were only a couple weeks late, and that owing to a few slow permissions and illustration requests. We’re happy to say how very pleased we are with the volume, which should be out early next year.

Here’s what the final table of contents looks like; it differs in minor details from the earlier one, and we’ve added one contributor since then:

            Cyrus R. K. Patell              INTRODUCTION

1          Robert Lawson-Peebles     FROM
BRITISH OUTPOST TO AMERICAN METROPOLIS

2          Elizabeth L. Bradley            INVENTED ANCESTORS: DUTCH NEW YORK FROM IRVING
TO WHARTON

3          Bryan Waterman                THE
CITY ON STAGE

4          Thomas Augst                    MELVILLE,
AT SEA IN THE CITY

5          Lytle Shaw                         WHITMAN’S
URBANISM

6          Caleb Crain                        HIGH
LIFE, WITH A GLANCE AT THE LOW: THE EARLY LITERATURE OF NEW YORK’S MONEYED
CLASS

7          Martha Nadell                    WRITING
BROOKLYN

8          Sarah Wilson                     
“BEAUFORT’S BASTARDS”: NEW YORK NOVELS OF MANNERS

9          Eric Homberger                  CITY
OF IMMIGRANTS:
POLITICS AND THE POPULAR CULTURES OF TOLERANCE

10        Melissa Bradshaw              PERFORMING
GREENWICH VILLAGE BOHEMIANISM

11        Thulani
Davis                      BLACK MECCA TO BLACK FIRE:
AFRICAN AMERICAN MOVEMENTS

12        Trysh Travis                       NEW
YORK’S CULTURES OF PRINT

13        Daniel Kane                       FROM
POETRY TO PUNK IN THE EAST
VILLAGE

14        Robin Bernstein                  STAGING
LESBIAN AND GAY NEW YORK

15        Cyrus R. K. Patell              EMERGENT
ETHNIC LITERATURES

            Bryan Waterman                EPILOGUE:
“THE MAGIC OF THIS BROKEN WORLD”: NOSTALGIA AND COUNTER-NOSTALGIA IN NEW YORK CITY WRITING