New York is a walker’s city. You can walk for hours. The streets slip by. There is so much to look at, so much to take in. I walk a lot. Especially when I am not writing…trying hard to fit in here. Trying to be more American. I’ve tried to tone my Australian vowels…trying to be an American is exhausting. German-born Australian journalist Lily Brett turns her razor-sharp gaze on the city that has entertained, inspired and  perplexed her for the decades she has lived there in a SoHo loft apartment. In a collection of wry pieces, she muses on -among other things – the dearth of single men, crime, celebrity hairdressers, the latest must-have plastic surgery and New York street conversation.