{"product_id":"new-york-sketches-9781946022738","title":"New York Sketches","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eE. B. White's greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOver more than fifty years at the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eHere Is New York\u003c\/i\u003e captured a moment in the life of Manhattan with precision and love--but his was no fleeting infatuation. In \u003ci\u003eNew York Sketches\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Sketches\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElwyn Brooks White\u003c\/b\u003e (1899-1985) was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the youngest of six children. He is best known today for his classic children's books \u003ci\u003eCharlotte's Web\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStuart Little\u003c\/i\u003e; he was also among the best and funniest American prose stylists of the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha White\u003c\/b\u003e, granddaughter of E. B. White, is a writer and editor. Her essays have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"McNally Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874695090450,"sku":"9781946022738","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1658dbdd-71b3-4a18-9e01-8f3428ebb942.jpg?v=1738004490","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/new-york-sketches-9781946022738","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}