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Stories from The Talk of the Town
Modern Library
May 2001
On Sale: May 1, 2001
512 pages
ISBN: 0375756493
EAN: 9780375756498
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Non-Fiction
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 ìgrandest 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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