New York in fiction . ne ofMrs. Burton Harrisons Siceet Belh outof TiOH. Near the southeast corner 99 NUW YORK IN FICTION the Square is the Benedick, a red-brickbachelor apartment building, used underthe name of the Monastery by Robert in Outsiders, his recent storyof New York life. Under its own name the Benedickplays a conspicuous part in the samewriters really fine and tragic story, TheRepairer of Reputations, and in TheYellow Sign of The King in Yellow. An intimate friend of the late author-editor told the present writer that TheMidge was written by Bunner to getmarried
New York in fiction . ne ofMrs. Burton Harrisons Siceet Belh outof TiOH. Near the southeast corner 99 NUW YORK IN FICTION the Square is the Benedick, a red-brickbachelor apartment building, used underthe name of the Monastery by Robert in Outsiders, his recent storyof New York life. Under its own name the Benedickplays a conspicuous part in the samewriters really fine and tragic story, TheRepairer of Reputations, and in TheYellow Sign of The King in Yellow. An intimate friend of the late author-editor told the present writer that TheMidge was written by Bunner to getmarried on. The book was dashed offin the house on Seventh Street in whichhe was then living. It was one of therare occasions on which Bunner was everseen to work. This characteristic wasalways a mystery to his friends and busi-ness associates. He was seldom seen athis writing-table, and j^i at the end ofthe year showed an extraordinary amountof work to his credit. The secret lay inthe ease and speed with which he wrote. 100. the jionasteuv, washinglon roisert chamhehs:outsiders and the king in yellow. NEW YORK IN FICTION There has probably never been a novelwritten that is so drenched with thespirit of Washington Square as TlieMidge. Buniier lived there in his youngerBohemian days, and throughout his lifehe seemed always to think of it witha great love and sympathy. To otherwriters the Square was something to bestudied in its architectural aspects or asa problem in social contrasts. Bunnerliked it best at night, with the great dimbranches swaying and breaking in thebreeze, the gas lamps flickering andblinking, when the tumults and the shout-ings of the day were gone and only atramp or something worse in womansshape was hurrying across the bleakspace, along the winding asphalt, walk-ing over the Potters Field of the past onthe way to the Potters Field to Peters, or Dr. Peters as he pre-ferred to be called, lived on the top floorof No. 50, a three-story brick struct
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