World through a Monacle

by | Feb 4, 2009 | Odds and Ends, Writing New York

This morning in lecture I mentioned — while showing this familiar image of the Five Points — that the little fellow up front to the left, the one with the top hat, always reminds me of Eustace Tilley, The New Yorker’s monacled mascot.Turns out this...

Dissing White

by | Jan 27, 2009 | Books, Writing New York | 4 comments

E.B. White’s Here Is New York will never suffer from a lack of fans. So I don’t feel bad (especially since we sell at least 100 copies a year for the old fellow) posting a link to a contrarian view, published in Salon back in the pre-9/11 era. According to...