New York Calling

This document discusses several New York City writers and their perspectives on the city. It begins by describing the author's messy New York apartment and moves to discuss how writers like Cynthia Ozick, Don DeLillo, and Richard Price have portrayed New York in their works. Ozick's novel The Puttermesser Papers depicts a decaying and gloomy NYC in the 1980s-1990s. DeLillo's novels like White Noise, Libra, and Underworld imbue a sense of impending doom while also capturing the city's landscapes. Richard Price, who grew up in the Bronx, writes novels that feel like 1970s New York despite being set in New Jersey. The document examines how these and other writers have