darkling The Shell Guides to Britain may not be "literature" but they are well written and contain some unflattering town descriptions.
On my flight out of Budapest the pilot took us through a town-by-town description of the route and made the point of thanking passengers for choosing easyJet.
It has been referred to as a ghost town, a description that galls the 800 or so people who still call it home.
I moved to the Wootton Bassett area 30 years ago when it was just an "ordinary market town", a description that has been applied to it many times over the years.
Although Syosset could not be called a Wall Street town, a description that fits certain other generally higher-priced areas of Nassau's North Shore, declines in the stock market and the perception that good times for investors may be at a close have taken a toll.
They resembled pages from an A.A.A. TripTik, with little views of the towns and descriptions of distances.
Robert Chatfield, the current first selectman of that town fits her description.
I cut across the Panamints and headed toward the lowest point in the United States, outside Badwater, which is less a town than a description.
"This man had such a stranglehold on this town it defies description," said Gary F. Stowell, a lawyer hired by the borough to conduct the assessment.
Remember, put in everything- character descriptions, town history, short stories that take place 5 years before the book begins- everything.
Inspired by a dwarf McCullers had seen at a bar in Brooklyn Heights, "The Ballad of the Sad Café" begins (again) with a description of a town: The town itself is dreary.... [It] is lonesome, sad, and like a place that is far off and estranged from all other places in the world..
