City Secrets Books: From the City Secrets, Arts & Letters Series - Hardcover

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Called "the best literary gift to travelers since the Baedeker and Henry James" (Financial Times), City Secrets guides are charming companions to the world's most fascinating destinations, from cities to movies, offering discoveries from internationally renowned authors, artists, and historians.
Books takes this intimate, insider's approach to literature, featuring 200 brief essays and recommendations by 150 esteemed figures in the literary world, including authors, writers, journalists, scholars, and critics. The list of contributors includes: Oscar Hijuelos, Pulitzer Prize-winning author; John Guare, playwright; Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker columnist and author; poet laureates Mark Strand and Robert Pinsky; and Kenneth Turan, NPR and the Los Angeles Times film critic, among many others.
A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to First Book, a national organization that gives children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. It has distributed more than 50 million books to children.

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