Broadway boogie woogie: Damon Runyon and the making of New York culture

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations for Runyon references

Introduction : Who was Damon Runyon?

Runyon's New York : historical contexts and fictional universe

Eyes and ears of the city : Runyon's collected journalism

Runyon's trial reporting and the spectator culture

Art and artistry of Runyon's fiction

Genres of Runyon's fiction : Noir and sentiment in a male-dominated world

Genres of Runyon's fiction : gangsters, gamblers, and boxers

Genres of Runyon's later fiction : nicely-nicely, political satire, Ambrose Hammer, Miami noir, and wartime stories

Turps : domesticity in Brooklyn.