You can find letters without ever looking in a book or on a sign—without even looking at a word. Take a tour of Alphabet City, and soon you'll see letters in the unlikeliest places. Look closely! There's a G in the curve of an ornate lamppost, an H in the crisscrossing walkways of a park, a U atop a fancy brick wall.

Uptown or downtown, from beltways to subways, rendering the ordinary extraordinary, Stephen T. Johnson's showstopping images invite us to explore our surroundings in a whole new way.

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