Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker
David Remnick
Feb 2000 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Amy Irving, Philip Bosco, and Alton Fitzgerald White
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One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the twenties and thirties and continuing to the present, this collection of New Yorker Profiles presents readers with a portrait gallery of some of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century. These Profiles are literary-journalistic investigations into character and accomplishment, motive and madness, beauty and ugliness, and are unrivalled in their range, their variety of style, and their embrace of humanity.
This abridged audiobook edition includes these eleven profiles:
“Mr. Hunter’s Grave” by Joseph Mitchell
“Isadora” by Janet Flanner
“Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody” by Ian Frazier
“Covering the Cops” by Calvin Trillin
“The Man Who Walks on Air” by Calvin Tomkins
“How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?” by Lillian Ross
“Wunderkind” by A. J. Liebling
“The Duke in His Domain” by Truman Capote
“A Pryor Love” by Hilton Als
“Lady with a Pencil” by Nancy Franklin
“The Coolhunt” by Malcolm Gladwell
“Show Dog” by Susan Orlean
This abridged audiobook edition includes these eleven profiles:
“Mr. Hunter’s Grave” by Joseph Mitchell
“Isadora” by Janet Flanner
“Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody” by Ian Frazier
“Covering the Cops” by Calvin Trillin
“The Man Who Walks on Air” by Calvin Tomkins
“How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?” by Lillian Ross
“Wunderkind” by A. J. Liebling
“The Duke in His Domain” by Truman Capote
“A Pryor Love” by Hilton Als
“Lady with a Pencil” by Nancy Franklin
“The Coolhunt” by Malcolm Gladwell
“Show Dog” by Susan Orlean
One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorou...
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David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker. He began his career as a sportswriter for The Washington Post and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Lenin's Tomb. He is also the author of Resurrection and The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, a collection of essays. He lives in New York City with his wife and three children.
David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker. He began his career as a sportswriter for The Washington Post and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for Lenin's Tomb. He is also the author of Resurrection and The Devil Problem and Other True Stories, a collection of essays. He lives in New York City w...
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