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The Long-winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker (edition 2016)

by Maeve Brennan (Author)

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From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" department under the pen name "The Long-Winded Lady." Her unforgettable sketches--prose snapshots of life in small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Times Square and the Village--together form a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she called the "most reckless, most ambitious, most confused, most comical, the saddest and coldest and most human of cities." First published in 1969, The Long-Winded Lady is a celebration of one of The New Yorker's finest writers.… (more)
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Title:The Long-winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker
Authors:Maeve Brennan (Author)
Info:Counterpoint (2016), Edition: Reissue, 288 pages
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A charming and bitter-sweet set of essays, The Long-Winded Lady brings together dozens of Irish-born Maeve Brennan's contributions to The New Yorker. Mostly written during the 1950s and 1960s, they are vignettes of a long-vanished city in transition, as brownstone houses and small businesses were sacrificed to what Brennan terms "the God of Office Space." Maeve Brennan's voice is crisp and cool—you learn very little of her life outside the moments of observation captured here—though with an occasional tendency to be too self-consciously arch. Overall though, a lovely example of the flâneuse's art. ( )
  siriaeve | Aug 6, 2017 |
interesting essays originally published in New Yorker written by a single woman living in various apartments and hotels in a rapidly changing city, as increased office space pushed many residential buildings and the small restaurants and other businesses out of existence.
  ritaer | Sep 22, 2016 |
Maeve Brennan had a real talent for transforming the everyday scenes and conversations that she saw and eavesdropped into an engaging tale about human behavior and NYC city. A must for NYC lovers. ( )
  emed0s | Feb 14, 2010 |
a gift from my mom--still unread
  klg19 | Jan 24, 2008 |
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From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" department under the pen name "The Long-Winded Lady." Her unforgettable sketches--prose snapshots of life in small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Times Square and the Village--together form a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she called the "most reckless, most ambitious, most confused, most comical, the saddest and coldest and most human of cities." First published in 1969, The Long-Winded Lady is a celebration of one of The New Yorker's finest writers.

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