Fancy a novel about Chicago or Buffalo, let us say, or Nashville, Tennessee! There are just three big cities in the United States that are 'story cities'- New York, of course, New Orleans, and, best of the lot, San Francisco.
Frank Norris, Joseph R. McElrath, Douglas K. Burgess (1996). “The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris, 1896-1898”, American Philosophical Society
