E.B. White Audio

Updike introduces the stories that struck him as "lively, beautiful, believable, and, in the human news they brought, important." His selections are by writers such as Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Joyce Carol Oates, James Alan McPherson, and Raymond Carver.

The Elements of Style has long been a valued and beloved resource for all writers. Hailed for its directness and clever insight, this unorthodox textbook was born from a professor’s love for the written word…

E.B. White is famous for his columns in Harper's and The New Yorker magazines, revered...

New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's life blood, it is the heart of American literary culture....

With selections carefully chosen from both sides of the Atlantic, this anthology pays homage to the great garden writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries while, at the same time, introducing the listener to some of the most original voices of today's generation of garden writers.