New York Sketches

E. B. White's greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly.

Over more than fifty years at theNew Yorker, 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 classicHere Is New Yorkcaptured a moment in the life of Manhattan with precision and love-but his was no fleeting infatuation. InNew ...