The Greenwich Village Reader

June Skinner Sawyers is the author of "Celtic Music: A Complete Music Guide".

Captures the infinite facades of the Village by presenting memoirs, articles, essays, poems, short stories, and excerpts from novels set in the West Village or penned by a Villager.The Greenwich Village Reader presents memoirs, articles, essays, poems, songs, letters, and excerpts from novels. The book ably represents the many faces of the Village: the aristocrats of the 1890s, the bohemians of the pre-World War I era, the underground denizens of the 1940s, the beats of the 1950s, the folkies of the 1960s, and inhabitants of the present day.