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Lillian Ross

The Fun of It

Stories from The Talk of the Town

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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.… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Remnick, David / White, E. B. / Thurber, James / Updike, John
  • ISBN: 978-0-375-75649-8
  • EAN: 9780375756498
  • Produktnummer: 9195853
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
  • Seitenangabe: 512 S.

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As Lillian Ross writes in her Preface, Talk stories have today evolved into the sharpest, funniest, and often timeliest short-form writing in the history of the magazine. These little (a thousand words or less) gems now bear out the ultimate refinement of what Harold Ross wanted his magazine to be.

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