"Gopnik can write a beautiful sentence about pretty much anything. . . . [At the Strangers' Gate] provoked the same reaction in me as all of Gopnik's work: I am awed by and envious of his craft and simply baffled by the span of his knowledge." --Duff McDonald, The Wall Street Journal

"A real treat." --The Times Literary Supplement

"The finest book of the New Yorker writer's distinguished career." --Maclean's

"Superb." --San Francisco Chronicle

"[Gopnik's] loving description of SoHo's cast-iron buildings, studded with specific detail, brings the neighborhood into sharp visual focus. . . . Character sketches of Avedon and Hughes are equally shrewd." --The Boston Globe

"At the Strangers' Gate brings a whole decade vividly back to life. . . . A well-oiled and smoothly captivating performance from start to finish, sure to be as beloved as Paris to the Moon but feeling even more personal and involving." --The Christian Science Monitor

"[A] stylish memoir." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

"At once intellectual, casual, observant and thoughtful." --San Francisco Chronicle

"For more than 30 years . . . Gopnik has made the most of sentences and circumstances. With At the Strangers' Gate, he has done so again." --Tulsa World

"Charming. . . . Gopnik asks readers, as Patti Smith did in Just Kids, to accompany him to another decade. . . . [His] writing, at its best, maintains a dynamic tension between elegance and wisdom, between the true and the lovely. . . . [He is] a formidable stylist, in the tradition of E.B. White, James Thurber and Wolcott Gibbs." --Toronto Globe and Mail

"A riveting and incandescent chronicle of personal evolution set within the ever-morphing, cocaine-stoked crucible of ferocious ambition that was 1980s Manhattan." --Booklist (starred review)

"Anyone who worries that artificial intelligence might some day outpace the faulty circuitry inside human heads should be cheered by the existence of Adam Gopnik. His brain has nothing to fear from electronic competition. . . . [He] is a sleek stylist, and a high-minded, big-hearted moralist into the bargain." --The Observer

"Gopnik has a way of making daily domestic life both fascinating and moving." --The New York Post

"With humor, affection, and the careful eye of a trained art historian, [Gopnik] offers an enjoyable and engaging story of New York." --Library Journal (starred review)