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Title: Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker (Modern Library (Paperback)) by David Remnick ISBN: 0-375-75751-1 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An outstanding collection of profiles.
Comment: It's easy, I suppose, to knock 'The New Yorker' as effete and self-satisfied. Certainly its left-wing bias looks a bit strange surrounded by all those ads for expensive imported whisky and porcelain figures. This book demonstrates, however, that for seventy-five years the magazine has been turning out splendid profiles of a very disparate group of people. And, what's even more important, they're written so beautifully. Even an oddball piece like Ian Frazier's 'Nobody Better, Better than Nobody' is lucid and full of fine sentences. Every one of the profiles in this book has something to recommend it. You needn't admire or be familiar with the subject of the profile. I harbour an intense dislike for Roseanne Barr, for example, but John Lahr's profile of her had me enthralled; and I enjoyed Roger Angell's piece on Steve Blatt, despite my never having seen a baseball game. David Remnick states in his introduction that he gave pride of place to Joseph Mitchell's 'Mister Hunter's Grave', and that's understandable: it's a masterpiece. But Richard Preston's long story about the Chudnovsky brothers and their search for pi, or Mark Singer's tale of the amazing sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay, would distinguish any anthology. I think that Remnick could easily compile another volume as strong, and I hope he does so in the future -- he should include something by himself next time.
Rating: 5
Summary: The New Yorker Strikes Again
Comment: Anyone who has ever read Joseph Mitchell's fascinating profile "Joe Gould's Secret" (now a book and a movie) knows what the New Yorker does with "Profiles". If you haven't read Mitchell, here's your chance, plus an unbelievable collection of life rendered beyond simple biography by a stable of superb writers. It's a must for any serious reader !
Rating: 5
Summary: Delightful and Revealing Profiles
Comment: Hemingway, Baryishnikov, and Henry Luce are the subjects of some of my favorite celebrity profiles in this wonderful book. But topping my list is "Man Goes to See a Doctor", the awesome Adam Gopnik's sweet and funny rendering of his shrink. Here's a snippet: "Your problems remind me of" - and here he named one of the heroes of the New York School. "Fortunately, you suffer from neither impotence nor alcoholism. This is in your favor." Highly recommended!
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Title: Fierce Pajamas : An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker by DAVID REMNICK, HENRY FINDER ISBN: 0375761276 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Fun of It: Stories from the Talk of the Town (Modern Library (Paperback)) by Lillian Ross ISBN: 0375756493 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Wonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker (Modern Library (Paperback)) by David Remnick, Susan Choi ISBN: 037575752X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Best American Essays of the Century by Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Atwan ISBN: 0618155872 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The New Gilded Age : The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence (Modern Library (Paperback)) by DAVID REMNICK ISBN: 0375757155 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 06 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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