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Here is New York Hardcover – January 1, 1999

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Perceptive, 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. The New York Times has named Here is New York one of the ten best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker calls it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.

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"On any person who desires such queer prizes, New York will bestow the gift of loneliness and the gift of privacy." So begins E.B. White's classic meditation on that noisiest, most public of American cities. Written during the summer of 1948, well after the author and editor had taken up permanent residence in Maine, Here Is New York is a fond glance back at the city of his youth, when White was one of the "young worshipful beginners" who give New York its passionate character. It's also a tribute to the sheer implausibility of the place--the tangled infrastructure, the teeming humanity, the dearth of air and light. Much has changed since White wrote this essay, yet in a city "both changeless and changing" there are things here that will doubtless ring equally true 100 years from now. To wit, "New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience--if they did they would live elsewhere."

Anyone who's ever cherished his essays--or even Charlotte's Web--knows that White is the most elegant of all possible stylists. There's not a sentence here that does not make itself felt right down to the reader's very bones. What would the author make of Giuliani's New York? Or of Times Square, Disney-style? It's hard to say for sure. But not even Planet Hollywood could ruin White's abiding sense of wonder: "The city is like poetry: it compresses all life ... into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines." This lovely new edition marks the 100th anniversary of E.B. White's birth--cause for celebration indeed. --Mary Park

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"E.B. White's love letter to New York.” —AMNY’s “Books Every New Yorker Should Read"

"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 as fifty years ago." —John Updike

“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.”—Russell Baker

“The wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city.”—The New Yorker

“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.'”—The Los Angeles Times

“… a masterpiece of travel writing. This edition contains an introduction by White's stepson, Roger Angell, himself a longtime New Yorker writer 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.”—Lousiville Courier-Journal

“White epitomized the lucid and penetrating essayistic voice so treasured at the New Yorker, 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.”
—Booklist, February 1, 2004

About the Author

“Thoroughly American and utterly beautiful” is how William Shawn, his editor at the New Yorker, described E. B. White’s 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. White died in 1985

Roger Angell is a writer and fiction editor at the New Yorker.

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….Mass hysteria is a terrible force, yet New Yorkers seems always to escape it by some tiny margin: they sit in stalled subways without claustrophobia, they extricate themselves from panic situations by some lucky wisecrack, they meet confusion and congestion with patience and grit—a sort of perpetual muddling through. Every facility is inadequate—the hospitals and schools and playgrounds are overcrowded, the express highways are feverish, the unimproved highways and bridges are bottlenecks; there is not enough air and not enough light, and there is usually either too much heat or too little. But the city makes up for its hazards and deficiencies by supplying its citizens with massive doses of a supplementary vitamin—the sense of belonging to something unique, cosmopolitan, mighty and unparalleled.Manhattan has been compelled to expand skyward because of the absence of any other direction in which to grow. This, more than any other thing, is responsible for its physical majesty. It is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village—the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying that the way is up. The summer traveler swings in over Hell Gate Bridge and from the window of his sleeping car as it glides above the pigeon lofts and back yards of Queens looks southwest to where the morning light first strikes the steel peaks of midtown, and he sees its upward thrust unmistakable: the great walls and towers rising, the smoke rising, the heat not yet rising, the hopes and ferments of so many awakening millions rising—this vigorous spear that presses heaven hard. New York is nothing like Paris; it is nothing like London; and it is not Spokane multiplied by sixty, or Detroit multiplied by four. It is by all odds the loftiest of cities…

Item Weight : 6 ounces
Hardcover : 56 pages
ISBN-10 : 1892145022
ISBN-13 : 978-1892145024
Dimensions : 5.2 x 0.43 x 7.3 inches
Publisher : The Little Bookroom; F First Edition Thus (January 1, 1999)
Language: : English

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Required reading for all New Yorkers and lovers of NY

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2018

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No truer or more beautiful words have been written. If you’ve spent your life in NYC this book will bring you to tears. It perfectly explains what it means to live here and why people do it. Written in 1948 but the true beauty is it is still all true in 2018 and likely continue for generations to come

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New York City Distilled to its Essence

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Who else but E.B. White could capture the soul and heartbeat of America's greatest city in less than fifty pages? For someone who lived in Manhattan for ten years in the mid-seventies to mid-eighties, perhaps the worst decade of despair, decay and violence in the city's recent history, I discovered so many other beautiful aspects to this home to eight million souls in the late forties. Written nearly three-quarters of a century ago, this paean will long remain the most apt, and poetic, account of what it means to experience the city.

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A Reader From NYC

Nostalgia for nostalgia

Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2017

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A beautiful book about one man's nostalgic walk through New York City that makes you nostalgic for an era when a man like White was walking nostalgically through the streets of New York. To be read with Colson Whitehead, with a break to listen to some Talking Heads and Blondie.

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Claudia Geagan

A Stroll through the heart of Manhattan

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2017

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E. B. White is an icon. Strunk and White taught me to write. Charlotte’s Web taught my children to love books. Here is a stroll around Manhattan from a man who loves it with all its flaws. I knew a New York forty years later than Mr White’s, all changed, yet all the same. And for its soul I loved it too.

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funny and insightful

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2018

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My birth place of NYC came into focus in a way I'd never known. I adore EB White. His wriitng is impeccable, funny and insightful.
I now have his entire collection and each one makes a perfect gift to anyone with a sense of humor and a love of language.

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S. Weber

A well written reflective essay

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2017

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EB Whites book is a long reflective essay about New York. While a short book a touching reflective book of observations about the people and the city. There are still many truths to this essay today.

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Noimporta

A classic jewel does not change

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2020

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I liked this book once it describes a NY that still is, in some ways, the same, even if it was written so many years ago. A jewel for nostalgics and lovers of this great city as it was and as it is.

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A glimpse of old New York, inspiring for today's readers

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2001

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I've loved E.B.White's writing ever since a grade school teacher read Charlotte's Web aloud to the class, chapter by chapter. His writing is unique, clear and memorable, whether he is writing about what he sees out his window or about life in New York walking down a busy sidewalk, masses of people all around him. While life in New York has changed significantly since E.B. White first wrote the words contained in this book, readers will find his writing also timeless in spirit and inspirational in invoking a renewed appreciation for New York and the little details that make it special. White once said of his writing: 'Writing to me is not an exercise in addressing readers, it is more as though I were talking to myself while shaving'. If only we could all be as articulate, memorable and even humorous while talking to ourselves and others! A very special book, worth reading and re-reading.

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Love3Memories

Great essay about old New York

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2019

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Loved this essay about New York - although it made me v. keen to travel there immediately!

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I loved reading this short book whilst on my fifth visit ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 23, 2014

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I loved reading this short book whilst on my fifth visit to New York. Written in 1949, I had not heard of it until 2014. Highly recommended. Also recommended is "Writing New York; a literary anthology" (1039 pages) Phillip Lopate, editor.

jackreed

a very short but very sweet journey through New York

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2015

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a very short but very sweet journey through New York. Dated but not so much so that you can't see the aspects of NYC culture that remain to this very day.

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Christopher Gaule

Great wee read, Amazing it was wrote so long ago.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 8, 2012

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A short homily to New York it puts into words all that you can imagine New York to be. I cant wait to visit and see for myself although I hope I don't end up as one of the tourists he speaks of in the book. If you have been there you'll love it, its unbiased, if you have not you'll love it, its full of hopes and dreams.

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Kmerrett

Prescient

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2015

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A slim volume which conveys his personal view; one passage is prescient in the light of 9/11. All the more enjoyable for being succinct.

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