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The Fun of It: Stories from The Talk of the Town
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- 9780375756498
- EAN
- 9780375756498
- Book Title
- Fun of It : Stories from the Talk of the Town
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Social History, Journalism, American / General, Essays
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 24.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece of journalism that always gets the story and has a little fun along the way. The Fun of It is the first anthology of Talk pieces that spans the magazine's life. Edited by Lillian Ross, the longtime Talk reporter and New Yorker staff writer, the book brings together pieces by the section's most original writers. Only in a collection of Talk stories will you find E. B. White visiting a potter's field; James Thurber following Gertrude Stein at Brentano's; Geoffrey Hellman with Cole Porter at the Waldorf Towers; A. J. Liebling on a book tour with Albert Camus; Maeve Brennan ventriloquizing the long-winded lady; John Updike navigating the passageways of midtown; Calvin Trillin marching on Washington in 1963; Jacqueline Onassis chatting with Cornell Capa; Ian Frazier at the Monster Truck and Mud Bog Fall Nationals; John McPhee in virgin forest; Mark Singer with sixth-graders adopting Hudson River striped bass; Adam Gopnik in Flatbush visiting the grandest theatre devoted exclusively to the movies; Hendrik Hertzberg pinning down a Sulzberger on how the Times got colorized; George Plimpton on the tennis court with Boris Yeltsin; and Lillian Ross reporting good little stories for more than forty-five years. They and dozens of other Talk contributors provide an entertaining tour of the most famous section of the most famous magazine in the world.
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375756493
ISBN-13
9780375756498
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1871831
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fun of It : Stories from the Talk of the Town
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social History, Journalism, American / General, Essays
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
24.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ac5.F86 2001
Copyright Date
2001
Lccn
00-068237
Dewey Decimal
814/.508
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
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