{"product_id":"here-is-new-york-by-e-b-white","title":"Here is New York by E. B. White","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has named \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHere is New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e calls it \"the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"E. B. White's love letter to New York.\" -- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eAMNY\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Books Every New Yorker Should Read\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Just to dip into this miraculous essay--to experience the wonderful lightness and momentum of its prose, its supremely casual air and surprisingly tight knit--is to find oneself going ahead and rereading it all. White's homage feels as fresh now as fifty years ago.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Updike\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"New York was the most exciting, most civilized, most congenial city in the world when this book was written. It's the finest portrait ever painted of the city at the height of its glory.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eRussell Baker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.\" -- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Part reverie, part lament and part exultation, the essay has long been recommended by Manhattanophiles as the best sketch ever drawn of the place. But since September 11, 2002, several sentences near the end--sentences 55 years old--resound with a prescience so eerie they bear repeating. 'The city, for the first time in its long history, is destructible, ' White writes. 'A single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this island fantasy, burn the towers, crumble the bridges, turn the underground passages into lethal chambers, cremate the millions. The intimation of mortality is part of New York now: in the sound of jets overhead, in the black headlines of the latest edition.'\" -- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A masterpiece of travel writing. This edition contains an introduction by White's stepson, Roger Angell, himself a longtime \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewriter and the author of a number of best-selling books about baseball. After Sept. 11, readers will find this book touching, and prescient, in striking ways. Consider this paragraph: 'All dwellers in cities must live with the stubborn fact of annihilation; in New York the fact is somewhat more concentrated because of the concentration of the city itself, and because, of all targets, New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm.' The charm isn't just the city. It is also the utterly perfect prose of E. B. White.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eLousiville \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCourier-Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"White epitomized the lucid and penetrating essayistic voice so treasured at the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an impeccable style employed to powerful effect in this exquisitely precise contemplation of the New York City of his youth, and, by extrapolation, of humankind at large. Written in 1948, this witty and perceptive praise song to New York is a classic.\" -- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, February 1, 2004\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Thoroughly American and utterly beautiful\" is how William Shawn, his editor at the New Yorker, described \u003cstrong\u003eE. B. White's\u003c\/strong\u003e prose. At the magazine, White developed a pure and plain-spoken literary style; his writing was characterized by wit, sophistication, optimism, and moral steadfastness. In 1978 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the body of his work. E. B. 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