The boys Slumber, Rags, and Willie Dozier travel alone from Alabama to this city in the children’s novel Sad-Faced Boy. After deserting his post, the ex-soldier Jake pursues a prostitute named Felice in this city, where the furniture salesman Ray Carney gets caught up in his cousin’s hotel heist. A novel in this city ends with Clare falling out of a window at a party with her childhood friend Irene. A speaker in this city likes (*) “a pipe for a Christmas present” and “Bessie, bop, or Bach” after being told to “Go home and write a page tonight” (10[1])in the poem “Theme (10[1])for English B.” A poem titled for a place in this city asks, (10[1])“What happens to a dream deferred?” For 10 points, (-5[1])name this American city home to a “Renaissance” in one of its neighborhoods that included Claude McKay and Langston Hughes. ■END■ (10[1])