Direct Wire

A vivid doorway to a bustling city long past, Direct Wire invites readers into the heart of early twentieth-century New York through a sharp, honest chorus of urban voices. A short stories collection that reads as a quiet archive of city life and the era's public mind. This volume presents a compact panorama of American literary history: public domain fiction that captures the rhythms of daily work, streetlights, newspaper presses, and the social weather of its time. The stories illuminate ...