New York, I Wish I Knew How to Quit You

If Sari Botton's first anthology was all about why writers leave New York, her second one dwells on the artists who stay. In E.B. White's essay Here is New York , he said that there were three kinds of New Yorkers, the last being the dreamers, who were responsible for what he called the 'third city': "It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements."

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