{"product_id":"new-york-sketches","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","brand":"Martha White, E B White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46301048701164,"sku":"9781946022738","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781946022738.jpg?v=1743078076","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/new-york-sketches","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}