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A review by bobbo49
Here is New York by E.B. White
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
Written in 1948, this long essay/love letter to New York City by E.B. White (introduction by his stepson, Roger Angell) still resonates. White had lived and worked in the City, and his return for a visit is filled with reflections on everything that makes the place so unique - much of which has well survived for 75 years since the writing. And the haunting "intimation of mortality", imagining that "a single flight of planes no bigger than a wedge of geese can quickly end this fantasy, burn the towers . . . " is matched by White's optimism that the City can, instead, serve as a model for a better future.