Liebling at the New Yorker: Uncollected Essays - Hardcover

Liebling, A. J.; Barbour, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826315356 ISBN 13: 9780826315359

Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr, 1994

Synopsis

This collection of essays by New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling provides a sampler of Liebling's wide interests and concerns. As a journalist, he developed an affectionate regard for hustlers, handicappers, and confidence men. His essays on New York provide a loving but eccentric portrait of the life of the city. Book reviews, musings on his youth and on great food, comments on the responsibilities of the press, observations on social customs, and, of course, his reports from Europe just before and after World War II all display the keen intelligence and unquenchable curiosity of the writer.
A. J. Liebling has often been regarded as one of the greatest of American journalists. These essays show him at his best, always finding the element of human interest in the most complex story. As Fred Warner notes in the introduction, once we read Liebling, we wish he were still around commenting on the absurdities of our times, writing about our current crop of mountebanks who so abundantly flourish, insisting on the objectivity and integrity of the Press. But most of all we wish he were here to grace us with his marvelous prose.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Liebling wrote about practically everything, as these essays from The New Yorker demonstrate; they range from a piece on racing written in 1937 to one on food written in 1962. Liebling was a thoughtful writer with a quick wit and a graceful style. His letters from Paris, which were composed at the beginning of World War II, are particularly interesting and poignant. And of course his essays on food are among the best ever written. Barbour and Warner have also edited A Neutral Corner (LJ 10/15/90), a collection of Liebling's works about boxing. Recommended where essay collections are popular.
Rebecca Wondriska, Trinity Coll. Lib., Hartford, Ct.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0826315356
• ISBN 13: 9780826315359
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Warner Fred