On Looking Classics looking up at the cracks

looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake

separated from his wife and daughter forever

and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas

so that her poems blast

On Looking Classics looking up at the cracksAlexandra Horowitzshows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinaryto practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, the observation of trifles. Structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, On Looking features experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. Horowitz also walks with a child and a