Times square is arguably the best known and most visited square in the world it is ripe with literary and cultural history from dorothy parker to jd salinger the beats and the great white way the new yorker magazine to the algonquin round table so much of what we know and think of about new york city were shaped by the writers the players and the drinkers that roamed the streets in times square well point out the sites well sip a few drinks well wander the streets and well perfo