PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewA geographic memoir ... The Intimate City is a joyful miscellany of people seeing things in the urban landscape, the streets alive with remembrances and ideas even when those streets are relatively empty of people.
Paul Craddock
PositiveThe New York Times Book Review... a thrilling and often terrifying ride through transplantation and the theories and techniques that made it possible.
Maxwell King
MixedThe New York Review of Books...Maxwell King’s The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers, offers the almost wacky details of [Rogers\'s] life...but only hints at the tension within Rogers, both the dutiful son of an industrialist and a sensitive composer devoted to the idea that the world children live in is fundamentally different from the world inhabited by adults ... King seems obsessed with Rogers’s sexuality—though to be fair, a lot of people are, with the apparent exception of his wife, Joanne, to whom he was married for fifty years ... King...treats his subject’s sex life as if he were conducting a police investigation ... Reading between the lines of King’s biography, one is struck by the ways in which Rogers’s creation was a reaction to severe restrictions and disconnections in his childhood, the ways that his parents’ philanthropic work (they bought shoes for his classmates, for instance) set him apart from the kids on the playground ... King make[s] Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood sound like a one-man show, while cast members recall it having been a team effort ... King argues that Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, an animated PBS Kids show created in 2012, \'captures the spirit of Rogers and advances his legacy\' ... [but] Their biography-oriented marketing seems to go against what Rogers was saying, especially in his later years, when he bemoaned how the increasing noise in American society hampered our ability to merely be present with one another.
