“The variety of subject matter to be found in these graceful pages is enormous. But no matter what his subject, Mr. White always writes about it in a prose that is a joy to read.”

– The New York Times

“This frisky collection from Charlotte’s Web author White (1899–1985) compiles brief dispatches . . . chronicling the vagaries of New York City life . . . The selections are rife with the author’s dry wit . . . His crystalline prose also captures the city’s beauty . . . This pulses with the irrepressible heartbeat of New York City."

– Publishers Weekly

“Some of the finest examples of contemporary, genuinely American prose. White’s style incorporates eloquence without affectation, profundity without pomposity, and wit without frivolity or hostility. Like his predecessors Thoreau and Twain, White’s creative, humane, and graceful perceptions are an education for the sensibilities.”

– The Washington Post

“E.B. White is a well-known and beloved children's author, but compiled here are the short essays and poems he wrote on all-things New York. Each literary sketch left me wondering in silence about a New York now lost and instilled in me a sense of envy toward this master observer. His writing packs a surprising bite carried along by steady and often lyrical prose.”

– Clarisse Jorah, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)

“His voice rumbles with authority through sentences of surpassing grace. In his more than fifty years at the New Yorker, White set a standard of writerly craft for that supremely well-wrought magazine. In genial, perfectly poised essay after essay, he has wielded the English language with as much clarity and control as any American of his time.”

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“A love song to NYC told in anecdotes, essays, jokes, musings, stories and prose.”

– Jesica Sweedler DeHart, Neill Public Library (Pullman, WA)