• Read Roxana Robinson’s introduction to the NYRB collection of Edith Wharton’s New York stories.
• As research for a project I’ve been dipping now and again into this early 1900’s account of New York. It’s oddly charming, with chapters that start like this: “Three o’clock is the hour when the heaped-up people in the lower city begin to move outward again.”
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
