Anais Nin has rented a furnished apartment in Washington Square West. The Village is filled with artists and writers, before and after Anais's time there - Henry James, Edith Wharton, Edward Hopper, Mark Twain, Leonard Bernstein, Khalil Gibran, Edgar Allan Poe, e.e. cummings, Marlon Brando.
Meandering streets, speakeasies during Prohibition - Chumley's played host to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, literary ambiance, give the Village its Bohemian tone. Anais loves its charm, character, atmosphere: old houses, small shops, trees, patios, back yards, studio windows, small theaters, people strolling about, sitting in the park.
It sounds as though Anais has discovered New York's version of Paris.
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