Here is New York (1949)
there is so much to love about a city like New York. The food, the art, the constant offerings of culture—though Addie’s favorite thing is its scale.
V. E. Schwab • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Joseph Mitchell both described and conjured the dazzling world of New York when it was really New York — the characters, the grit, the language.
Michael Rosenwald • ‘I wish this guy hadn’t written this book’
I pay a lot of attention to place in my writing, so when I arrive in a new town I try to do what Lawrence Durrell recommended in his essay “Spirit of Place,” which is to get still as a needle, as he puts it. [“It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you
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