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Cultural capital?
Published: May 9, 2003 New York is neither the place to make money by literary work, nor the place to do literary work in. Life in New York is not conducive to study, culture or meditation. For a city inhabited by, or adjacent to, nearly three millions of people, it is astonishingly deficient in libraries. Persons who wish to shine as fixed stars in the firmament of literature should avoid New York as a permanent residence; and those who wish to make a living by literary work alone will not find New York a good field.
--From an article by Eugene L. Didier
The Writer, June 1888 |
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