The Colossus of New York

A tour de force. Luc Sante, The New York Times Book Review

Pitch-perfect. . . . Utterly authentic. . . . The Colossus of New York is quite simply the most delicious 13 bites of the Big Apple I ve taken in ages. The Washington Post

A love letter to New York. . . . Colossus illuminates innumerable little moments that define the city. San Francisco Chronicle

The cheapest, most stylish ticket to the Big Apple between two covers. . . . .It s as if Whitehead s scooped his pen into the collective unconscious of everyone who s ever visited New York. Pittsburg Post-Gazette

A revelatory ode to Gotham. . . . Whitehead s engaged eyes and precise prose show us the small details we overlook and the large ones we fail to absorb. The Miami Herald

Smooth, dazzling, evocative. . . . [Whitehead] writes wonderfully, commanding a lush, poetic, mellifluous prose instrument. The Nation

[Whitehead is] a scientist of metropolitan encounters, he surveys places where the masses collide, knitting together hundreds of observations and calculations that usually remain unspoken. . . . The musical prose thrums with urban momentum. The Village Voice

[Whitehead s] New York, like Walt Whitman s or Thomas Pynchon s or Woody Allen s, is full of incantatory potential. Even the subway, ordinary, noisy, gruddy inevitability, becomes a ferry to the Underworld. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

[A] rhapsodic ode to Gotham. Time Out

Jazzlike. . . . A vivid impressionistic montage of Manhattan. The Seattle Times

Whitehead s series of vignettes and remembrances paint a perfect visual landscape. . . . A heartfelt tribute to Whitehead s home. The Oregonian

Lyrical. . . . Lean and full of longing. . . . The kind of book that will be . . . passed around, dog-eared, library-tagged, resold, from reader to reader. . . . Whitehead takes a known and specific place and universalizes it, insinuating it into the meshwork of our thoughts in a manner impervious to time and trend. Minneapolis Star Tribune

Thrums with anxious excitement and excited anxiety accommodating the noirish, the reportorial, and the epigrammatic. . . . The best passages deserve comparison with E.B. White s Here is New York. Entertainment Weekly

Whitehead [is] one of the city s and country s finest young writers. . . . [A] guided tour de force. Chicago Tribune

Jazzlike. . . . A vivid impressionistic montage of Manhattan. The Seattle Times

A revelatory ode to Gotham. . . . Whitehead s engaged eyes and precise prose show us the small details we overlook and the large ones we fail to absorb. Miami Herald

Profound and playful. Los Angeles Times

Whitehead s series of vignettes and remembrances paint a perfect visual landscape. . . . A heartfelt tribute to Whitehead s home. The Oregonian

Rhapsodic love letters . . . elegant, ambitious essays. New York Post

Impressionistic . . . [an] affecting homage to E.B. White. New York Magazine (Top Fall Book Pick)