Essayist explores act, art of seeing by Glenn C. Altschuler
From the website: Standing on a street corner in Midtown Manhattan in 1946, Jean-Paul Sartre looked for New York. But he couldn't find it. To Sartre, a Parisian, a city was a social milieu, where "streets run into other streets," and people meet, drink, eat and talk. On New York's grid, with its numbered avenues, "you never lose your way, and you are always lost."
