New York Sketches That fire has long since

That fire has long since burnt out

and people

They include an astronomical compendium made for Charlemagne's son

lost ghosts and elemental mysteries

When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa

New York Sketches That fire has long sinceE. B. White's greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly. Over more than fifty years at the New Yorker, E. B. White came to define a kind of ideal American prose: clear, casual, democratic, and urbane. He also did more than any writer to define his favorite city. His classic Here Is New York captured a moment in the life of Manhattan with precision and love