Here is New York
E.B. White's 1949 essay on the city, short enough to read in an hour
E.B. White's 1949 essay on New York, written over a hot summer for Holiday magazine and published as a slim book of about 50 pages. It divides the city's people into the natives, the commuters and the arrivals who came looking for something, and ends with a prescient image of a single flight of planes ending the whole thing. Short enough to read in an hour, which is why it gets given as a gift.
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One of two short books he gifts most often, a habit picked up from Billy Shore of Share Our Strength, on the logic that a short book is a gift and a long one is a burden. E.B. White's 1949 account of New York still holds up, he says, for anyone who lives in or loves the city.
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