Reporting at wit's end : tales from The New Yorker / St. Clair McKelway ; introduction by Adam Gopnik.
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Publisher:
Bloomsbury USA,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
xix, 620 p. ; 21 cm.
Other Titles:
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
Contents:
The 1930s. Firebug-catcher -- Place and leave with -- The innocent man at Sing Sing -- Average cop -- Who is this king of glory? (with A.J. Liebling) -- The 1940s -- Some fun with the F.B.I. -- Mister 880 -- The cigar, the three wings, and the low-level attacks -- The wily Wilby -- Gossip writer -- The 1950s. The blowing of the top of Peter Roger oboe -- The cockatoo -- A case of felony murder -- This is it, honey -- The perils of Pearl and Olga -- The rich recluse of Herald Square -- The 1960s. The Edinburgh caper -- The big little man from Brooklyn.
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