Reporting at Wit's End: Tales from The New Yorker
Autor St. Clair McKelwayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2010
His articles for theNew Yorkerwere defined by their clean language and incomporable wit, by his love of New York's rough edges and his affection for the working man (whether that work was come by honestly or not). Like Joseph Mitchell and A. J. Liebling, McKelway combined the unflagging curiosity of a great reporter with the narrative flair of a master storyteller. William Shawn, the magazine's long-time editor, described him as a writer with the "lightest of light touches." His style is so striking, Shawn went on to say, that "it was too odd to be imitated."
The pieces collected here are drawn from two of McKelway's books--True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality(1951)andThe Big Little Man from Brooklyn(1969). His subjects are the small players who in their particulars defined life in New York during the 36 years McKelway wrote: the junkmen, boxing cornermen, counterfeiters, con artists, fire marshals, priests, and beat cops and detectives. The "rascals."
An amazing portrait of a long forgotten New York by the reporter who helped establish and utterly definedNew Yorker"fact writing,"Untitled Collectionis long overdue celebration of a truly gifted writer.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781608190348
ISBN-10: 160819034X
Pagini: 640
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 160819034X
Pagini: 640
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 41 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
MCKELWAY'S
PERSONAL
STORY:
Likely
McKelway
was
bipolar.
He
had
psychotic
episodes
from
his
twenties
on
and
spent
the
last
ten
years
of
his
life
in
an
institution.
Likely
the
disorder
that
characterized
his
personal
life
ultimately
led
to
his
work
going
out
of
print.
Notă biografică
St.
Clair
McKelway
came
from
a
family
of
newspaper
journalists
and
ministers.
Born
in
1905,
in
Charlotte,
NC,
he
grew
up
in
Washington,
DC,
and
worked
his
first
job
as
an
office
boy
at
the
oldWashington
Times-Herald.He
went
on
to
report
and
edit
for
theNew
York
World,
theNew
York
Herald
Tribune,
and
theChicago
Tribune.
He
eventually
became
a
staff
writer
at
theNew
Yorker,where
he
wrote
for
thirty
years,
and
its
managing
editor
from
1936-1939.
He
married
five
times,
each
of
the
marriages
ending
in
divorce,
and
died
in
1980
at
the
age
of
74.
Recenzii
McKelway
was
a
born
writer
and
an
inspired
writer,
and
he
saw
the
world
in
his
own
way
and
wrote
clearly
and
beautifully
about
what
he
saw.
He
lived
his
life
in
a
dream,
but
it
was,
on
the
whole,
a
benevolent
dream.
We
can
be
grateful
that,
through
his
work,
he
was
able
to
share
it
with
the
rest
of
us.
Nobody tells a story better than [McKelway] does.
Nobody tells a story better than [McKelway] does.
Descriere
The
best
of
St.
Clair
McKelway,
a
long-timeNew
Yorkerwriter,
whose
astonishing
career
and
work
have
been
overlooked
for
too
long--with
an
introduction
by
Adam
Gopnik