New York City has never dazzled me all that much, so I didn't read this essay to learn more about it, per se. I read Here Is New York because E.B. White wrote it. White's Charlotte's Web and The Trumpet of the Swan delighted me when I was a child, and I've looked at The Elements of Style on more ...
The cover of this book refers to E.B. White as "inimitable," which is a word just vague enough in meaning to the modern ear to suggest the author is venerable and quaint. I couldn't have chosen a better term. While a fair number of these short pieces are pointed and political, all have the tone o...