A book-lover's tour of the city that never sleeps | Hardcover TRAVEL/Special Interest / Literary Series: Literary Landscapes Literary Landscapes: New York is the follow-up to Literary Landscapes: Paris and contains a familiar blend of everything precious to the bibliophile—quirky bookstores, authors’ favorite bars, storied hotels, grand libraries, on- and off-Broadway theatres which launched major plays, New York residences and literary locations, such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art—described in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. For beloved bookstores, there is the Argosy, dating to 1925 and the oldest in Manhattan, Three Lives & Company in West Village, The Strand in East Village, The Corner Bookstore on the Upper East Side, the Alabaster Bookshop, and, stretching across to Brooklyn, the Greenlight Bookstore.