New York Sketches -- E. B. White

<b>E. B. White's greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly.</b> <p/>Over more than fifty years at the <i>New Yorker</i>, E. B. White came to define a kind of ideal American prose: clear, casual, democratic, and urbane. He also did more than any writer to define his favorite city. His classic <i>Here Is New York</i> captured a moment in the life of Manhattan with precision and love--but his was no fleeting infatuation. In <i>New York Sketches</i>, the first collection of his casual pieces about the city, White ranges at whim from the nesting habits of pigeons to the aisles of a calculator trade-show on Eighth Avenue, from the behavior of snails in aquariums to the ghosts of old romance that haunt a flower shop or a fire escape or an old hotel. These sketches, some less than a page long, many written for a laugh, or in response to the news of the day, show us White at his most playful and inventive. <p/> <i>New York Sketches</i> is a welcome diversion for every New Yorker--native, adoptive, or far from home--and a perfect introduction, not only to what White called "the inscrutable and lovely town," but to the everyday enchantments of one of her fondest reporters.<br><br><b>Author:</b> E. B. White<br><b>Publisher:</b> McNally Editions<br><b>Published:</b> 12/03/2024<br><b>Pages:</b> 152<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.36lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.50h x 5.00w x 0.50