{"product_id":"9781590178515","title":"Onward and Upward in the Garden","description":"In 1925 Harold Ross hired Katharine Sergeant Angell as a manuscript reader for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e.  Within months she became the magazine’s first fiction editor,  discovering and championing the work of Vladimir Nabokov, John Updike,  James Thurber, Marianne Moore, and her husband-to-be, E. B. White, among  others. After years of cultivating fiction, White set her sights on a  new genre: garden writing. On March 1, 1958, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e ran a  column entitled “Onward and Upward in the Garden,” a critical review of  garden catalogs, in which White extolled the writings of “seedmen and  nurserymen,” those unsung authors who produced her “favorite reading  matter.” Thirteen more columns followed, exploring the history and  literature of gardens, flower arranging, herbalists, and developments in  gardening. Two years after her death in 1977, E. B. White collected and  published the series, with a fond introduction. The result is this  sharp-eyed appreciation of the green world of growing things, of the  aesthetic pleasures of gardens and garden writing, and of the dreams  that gardens inspire.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184181395696,"sku":"9781590178515","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590178515_p0.jpg?v=1763808796","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590178515","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}