Praise for City Secrets:

 

"Is there any more heavenly pleasure than the anticipation of pleasure? So much concise and persuasive passion by such smart and interesting people about so many intriguing and unfamiliar works! My next several years are hereby, um, booked."
-Kurt Andersen, author, journalist and NPR radio host of Studio 360

 

"What a superb literary map...within, even the most jaded readers can find marvels."
-Junot Diaz, author

 

"These short essays are a rich and lucid reminder of the books that have moved us and should not be forgotten. It is a great gift--a wonderful reading list, a literary road trip."
-A.M. Homes, author

 

"Think you've seen or read all the great books and films there are to digest? Think again. City Secrets Books & Movies are your guide to gems of cinema and literature that are mostly overlooked, compiled from recommendations given by some of the world's most well-respected minds on either subject."
-Uncrate.com

 

Movies: The Ultimate Insider's Guide is an offbeat, expertly curated compendium of hundreds of movies you may have missed. Assembled by the author of the City Secrets series of urban guidebooks, this 304-page handbook offers quick, informal movie recommendations from film stars, bit players, and everyday film buffs."
-Veryshortlist.com

 

Richly eclectic and wildly browsable is the book City Secrets Movies: The Essential Insider's Guide, from the City Secrets Arts & Letters series. . . . Surprising and revealing, City Secrets Movies is the instant response to the lament "There's nothing to watch."
-Town & Country

 

Before I die, I want to spend a weekend hidden away in some idyllic place, watching all the wonderful movies I have never heard of. To prepare for this weekend, I have this book."
-Mary-Louise Parker

 

A wonderfully subjective little guide to the best films of all time."
-Graydon Carter, Editor, Vanity Fair

 

"The best literary gift to Italian travelers since the Baedeker and Henry James."
-Financial Times

 

"City Secrets Rome is always filled with the kind of information you would get from a friend who had spent years living in the Italian capital . . . After using City Secrets Rome, you'll never want to go back to the standard guidebook."
-GQ

 

"This idiosyncratic guide helps jaded visitors see the Eternal City anew."
-The New York Times 

 

"Escape from the crowds and chaos can be a challenge in Rome, but help comes in the form of City Secrets Rome. Architect and former resident Robert Kahn has collected the wisdom of his artist and writer friends in a guide that peels back the layers of the city's charms."
-Condé Nast Traveler 

 

"City Secrets Rome is a guidebook in disguise . . . a lovely, unobtrusive little book, obviously designed by and for people who love books. . . . you'd never want to go to Rome without it."
-The Toronto Star

 

"Does the world need another guide book? The answer, strange as it may seem to those who have agonized over just which ones to buy and carry abroad, is maybe yes . . . City Secrets Rome is not only slim, small and light but also packed with information not easily available elsewhere. It should be everyone's pick to supplement any guide more devoted to the travel basics"
-Barron's

 

"To my mind, the most cultured and imaginative travel guide to be published in the recent past has been City Secrets Rome . . . Highly recommended."
-A Common Reader

 

"This insider's guide to the Eternal City is petite and wrapped in a tasteful cloth cover that doesn't scream ‘naïve foreigner.'"
-Los Angeles Times Magazine

 

"Today's proliferating travel journalists and guidebook writers seem to be portraying the world with an increasing uniformity of approach. It is thus with enormous relief that one comes across guidebooks written from an unusual and at times commercially foolhardy perspective. The crisply designed City Secrets Rome is one such guidebook with difference."
-Quarterly (London)

 

"With entries by poets, architects, and historians, Robert Kahn's guide reveals the pleasures of the Eternal City through the words of those who love it."
-House & Garden

 

"Reading this book is like attending a reception at the academy and listening to academy residents offer glowing accounts [of] some of Rome's many treasures . . . it could serve as a delightful viaticum for tourists in Rome and provide them with an artful insight into Rome's familiar of not so familiar attractions."
-Library Journal

 

"This is the other side of the moon from most city guides."
-The Irish Times

 

" . . . passionate pearls of advice . . . from those who know."
-Sky Magazine

 

"This new series shows each city through the eyes of those who know it best . . . taken together, their recommendations provide travelers with the ultimate insider's tour. They are the hot guide . . . Wonderful keepsakes."
- Savvy Traveler, Public Radio International

 

"City Secrets New York City, the latest installment in architect Robert Kahn's invaluable series of insider guides for travelers, comprises recommendations from more than 300 writers, artists, historians, gourmands, and other notables . . . who live and work in New York. Entries in the form of personal vignettes explore everything from art to food, architecture to shopping, and music to landmarks, in all five boroughs."
-New York Magazine 

 

" . . . an extraordinary resource . . ."
-Travel + Leisure

 

"In-the-know Big Apple-ites such as John Guare, Oliver Sacks, and Kate Spade share their city secrets . . . "
-Vanity Fair

 

 " The future of guidebooks."
-Good Magazine

 

"City Secrets New York City, the just-out guide with totally subjective suggestions from architects, writers, and other cultural figures about their favorite places."
-Gourmet Magazine

 

 "City Secrets New York City is a subjective collection of suggestions from people who love the city, who know the nooks and crannies. . . . Every neighborhood and borough is covered. It might be a quiet little park, a Russian Turkish bath, an eye-popping candy store or a hundred-year-old place to find heavenly focaccia in Brooklyn."
-Kurt Andersen, WNYC National Public Radio

 

 "Guides with tips from inhabitants such as Laura Linney and Kate Spade for NYC."
-InStyle Magazine

 

 "Compiles little gems from an enviable list of writers, musicians, archeologists, artists . . . who share their favorite corners of New York and its boroughs."
-Departures

 

 " . . . a highly personalized, elegant-and vividly written-offering of ‘bests.'"
-Minneapolis Star Tribune

 

"A fantastic read, whether you pick it up and go headlong cover to cover, or stick it in your pocket and head out the door for a stroll around town, these make a great gift for local and visitor alike."
-Dan's Papers

 

"The information is always highly personal and never veers into typical guidebook fare."
-Avenue

"City Secrets guides are unlike any others on the market . . . in this case, a formidable cross section of London's intelligentsia . . . share their inside information on the parts of London they know best, the sorts of places that they might reveal to visiting friends, the keys that might unlock some of the city's meaning."
-The Sunday Times (London)

 

 "Endlessly fascinating, a miscellany which yields something extraordinary almost every time you dip into it."
-Independent on Sunday

 

 "There are enough discoveries and insights to keep a native, let alone a visitor, tramping the streets for years."
-Daily Telegraph

 

 " . . . a wonderful collection of guides that take you into the heart of some of the world's most famous cities. Its real strength lies in its wealth of local knowledge and great writing."
-Sainbury's Magazine

 

 "This is one of the most unique travel guides on the market."
-TNT Magazine (London)

 

"Niles and Frasier Crane would love this book . . . crammed with tips . . . Full marks for letting words do the work."
-The Observer (London)

 

 "The next time I go to London, this book goes with me."
-San Francisco Chronicle

 

 "Architect Robert Kahn's City Secrets Rome and City Secrets Florence, Venice and the Towns of Italy are full of interesting finds, even for those who know Italy well."
-Town & Country

 

 "Another in the series of little gems."
-RTE

 

"Like last year's indispensable Rome guide, [City Secrets Florence, Venice & the Towns of Italy] offers insider tips from artists, writers, historians and architects."
-New York Magazine

 

 "The impassioned descriptions and informed perspectives of this sophisticated guide book form an inspired tour of Florence, Venice, and the towns of this most inspiring of countries."
-Powell's