Twelve adult animal tales for our time, with illustrations by Katie Kehrig.

A free, downloadable, nonfiction narrative of the extraordinary times we are living through.

Published two years before the destruction of the twin towers, this bestselling cultural history, now widely considered prescient, traces the development of Lower Manhattan from colonial times to advent of the WTC.

“Eric Darton’s Divided We Stand is a model not only of writing but of citizenship. It fuses analytical brilliance with personal feeling. Darton knows and shows where the bodies are buried, but he never lets his anger poison his underlying love. He shows us how to confront all that has been done to our town, and how to live through it and lay claim to the city as our own.”

—Marshall Berman, author of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

“Darton's seductive fable is a stylistic tour de force, a dazzling parable about the birth of the modern age with its terrors and promise....this debut novel is reminiscent of Italo Calvino's work in its dashing mingling of history and fantasy.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Darton's Free City warns of something so evident that it is difficult to see: if the foundations of a 'free city' - a society - are undermined, it can be lead to ruin. This tricky, delirious fable for our times - fraught with profound and uncertain change, in which the alliance between unimpeded technology and capitalism drags us blind into the new millennium - carries a strong moral and political load. But Darton's narrative refuses pessimism, arguing that collective freedom is capable of defending itself with the magic fluid of a mind truly free and sovereign.”

—Roberto Saladrigas, La Vanguardia, Barcelona

“Only two things are sure: New York is in rapid motion, and this book is a great guide to where it might be headed. Its diverse array of observations-written by some of the country's smartest (and wittiest) analysts and activists-are incisive and accessible, provocative and entertaining, perfect for an urban studies course and for anyone interested in pondering the past and future of cities.”

—Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898

“Drawing on the enormous resources of New York's literary community, 110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11 is a surprisingly supple commemoration of disaster. Short-short stories and poems by New York writers are the collection's raison d'être.... Overall, this collection proves the transformative power of art.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Amid the flood of glossy picture books memorializing September 11 comes a rare collection of essays on the fallen World Trade Towers. Written by social critics and urbanists, the essays provide a multidimensional portrait of the towers and New York in the aftermath of September 11. The Lower Manhattan site is presented as a complex, contested landscape rich in historical, social, and political context.... Global and local in outlook, reaching beyond the personal-tragedy, American-values perspective that has dominated the media, this thoughtful volume is not just for New Yorkers.”

—Philip Herbst, Booklist

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