Alison Baker

VISITING NEW YORK

I had occasion to go to New York City recently. It may astonish you to know that, despite my cosmopolitan ways and my literary, epicurean, sociological and artistic sophistication, I had never been there before.  Read More 

On a recent train trip from Philadelphia to Boston I found myself in The Quiet Car. Outside the window the metropolitan corridor was all snow, and almost all was black or white or gray, with splotches of dull red, brick buildings and asphalt roofs, to break the monotony.  Read More