Here is New York by E.B. White

"….Mass hysteria is a terrible force, yet New Yorkers seems always to escape it by some tiny margin: they sit in stalled subways without claustrophobia, they extricate themselves from panic situations by some lucky wisecrack, they meet confusion and congestion with patience and grit—a sort of perpetual muddling through. Every facility is inadequate—the hospitals and schools and playgrounds are overcrowded, the express highways are feverish, the unimproved highways and bridges are bottlenecks; there is not enough air and not enough light, and there is usually either too much heat or too little. But the city makes up for its hazards and deficiencies by supplying its citizens with massive doses of a supplementary vitamin—the sense of belonging to something unique, cosmopolitan, mighty and unparalleled."

Comments

[Kate]

A perfect description.

[Kat sosnik]

Are there any book club reading guides/discussion points for this eb white book.

[Book Club Girl]

Kat - I've done some searching online and don't see a reading group guide. But I think it would be easy to get a discussion going - you could start by talking about the period of time that EB White wrote this, and how it applies today. If book club members have visited NY - does this correspond to what they think of as NY and NYers? Do they have similar emotions about the place they live, or other places? Why does NY have this reputation - is it deserved? Has anyone in the group lived in NY? If they could, would they and why, or why not? Those are off the top of my head as I haven't read this in a long time. Hope it helps!

[Anne Smith]

This is a great book and worth reading!

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