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Letters of Note

New York City

#10 in series

by Shaun Usher
Louise Brealey
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An exciting new volume of letters about the Capital of the World—from George Washington, Kahlil Gibran, Audrey Hepburn, Martin Scorsese, and more—from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections
Peter Schagen writes to the Dutch West India Company about the purchase of "Manhattes." Mayor Ambrose Kingsland urges the city council to create what became Central Park. E. B. White bemoans taxi cab design to Harold Ross, cofounder of The New Yorker. Bianca Jagger sets the record straight about that white horse in Studio 54. New York City goes by many names—Gotham, Empire City, the City That Never Sleeps—and once served as the capital of America. It came together as we know it in 1898 and has become one of the world's most powerful, most important megacities, shaping art, culture, finance, and media across the globe. This iconic collection of thirty letters smartly explores the history of life in the five boroughs. You'll need more than a New York minute to enjoy it all.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Letters of Note

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    November 2, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593457269
      • File size: 76001 KB
      • Duration: 02:38:20

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 13, 2021
      Dogs are a writer’s best friend in this charming installment in the Letters of Note series (after Letters of Note: Love). Thirty letters from a wide variety of writers span over 600 years and highlight “our ever-evolving relationship with this magnificent creature.” In 1351, poet Francesco Petrarch wrote to his friend Matteo with a praise-heavy update about Matteo’s dog, which Petrarch had adopted. Patrick Brontë, meanwhile, wrote to his daughter Charlotte in 1853 from the perspective of her dog Flossy: “Trust dogs rather than men,” he urged. E.B. White hilariously responded in 1951 to the ASPCA’s accusation that his dachshund Minnie was unlicensed (“If by ‘harboring’ you mean getting up two or three times every night to pull Minnie’s blanket up over her, I am harboring a dog all right”), Zora Neale Hurston wrote to her literary agent in 1960 detailing a piece she was working on about her dog Spot, and comedian Sue Perkins wrote to her dog Pickle after his death (“First, a confession: I had you killed”). Where the collection shines is in its ability to reveal unexpected information about the correspondents’ lives: “I have always disliked people who talk baby talk to dogs,” John Steinbeck declares. Dog lovers will savor this quirky collection.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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