In “A Literary Visitor Strolls In From The Airport” by Charles McGrath , the author talks about a writer who travels through New York without using public transportation. He shows aspects of the city and gives insight on sights that many may not have noticed as a New Yorker. In the feature article McGrath speaks about Mr.Self who opens the reader’s eyes about traveling to particular areas by walking. For example, he talked about asking directions and responses that he got. The author draws his readers in with examples to make us think about the experience of walking through the city as opposed to driving. One of those would be Self’s walk from JFK airport to the Crowne Plaza Hotel, which is a 26 mile walk. His walk’s trajectory goes from Queens to Brooklyn to Manhattan. Throughout that journey he talks about some of the sights he sees including some familiar and unfamiliar areas such as Eastern Parkway, the projects on Glendale and Flatbush Avenue. He offers specific details of what he experienced visually. In addition, he tends to comment about what these sights say about life in America. For example, “There is a deep sadness to American society, greater than the sadness of any kind. It’s because America has such ideology of success”. The author expresses how Will Self’s walking is a stress reliever for his addiction to alcohol and drugs, noting that “ walking made him feel better than drugs ever did”. Mr. Self takes us around Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan and as he gets close to his destination, he makes commentary about architecture of landmarks such as the Municipal Building. Mr. Self finally concludes that NY is more complex than what the naked eye sees. According to Self, “Actually , instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry that has been cut up and carved away”.