Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library

Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library (Paperback))

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, such as Henry Luce and Isadora Duncan, and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Richard Pryor, 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.

Including these twenty-eight profiles:

â‚¬Å“Mr. Hunterâ‚¬s Graveâ‚¬Â by Joseph Mitchell
â‚¬Å“Secrets of the Magusâ‚¬Â by Mark Singer
â‚¬Å“Isadoraâ‚¬Â by Janet Flanner
â‚¬Å“The Soloistâ‚¬Â by Joan Acocella
â‚¬Å“Time . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luceâ‚¬Â by Walcott Gibbs
â‚¬Å“Nobody Better, Better Than Nobodyâ‚¬Â by Ian Frazier
â‚¬Å“The Mountains of Piâ‚¬Â by Richard Preston
â‚¬Å“Covering the Copsâ‚¬Â by Calvin Trillin
â‚¬Å“Travels in Georgiaâ‚¬Â by John McPhee
â‚¬Å“The Man Who Walks on Airâ‚¬Â by Calvin Tomkins
â‚¬Å“A House on Gramercy Parkâ‚¬Â by Geoffrey Hellman
â‚¬Å“How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?â‚¬Â by Lillian Ross
â‚¬Å“The Education of a Princeâ‚¬Â by Alva Johnston
â‚¬Å“White Like Meâ‚¬Â by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
â‚¬Å“Wunderkindâ‚¬Â by A. J. Liebling
â‚¬Å“Fifteen Years of The Salto Mortaleâ‚¬Â by Kenneth Tynan
â‚¬Å“The Duke in His Domainâ‚¬Â by Truman Capote
â‚¬Å“A Pryor Loveâ‚¬Â by Hilton Als
â‚¬Å“Gone for Goodâ‚¬Â by Roger Angell
â‚¬Å“Lady with a Pencilâ‚¬Â by Nancy Franklin
â‚¬Å“Dealing with Roseanneâ‚¬Â by John Lahr
â‚¬Å“The Coolhuntâ‚¬Â by Malcolm Gladwell
â‚¬Å“Man Goes to See a Doctorâ‚¬Â by Adam Gopnik
â‚¬Å“Show Dogâ‚¬Â by Susan Orlean
â‚¬Å“Forty-One False Startsâ‚¬Â by Janet Malcolm
â‚¬Å“The Redemptionâ‚¬Â by Nicholas Lemann
â‚¬Å“Gore Without a Scriptâ‚¬Â by Nicholas Lemann
â‚¬Å“Delta Nightsâ‚¬Â by Bill Buford
Country USA
Brand Modern Library
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0375757511_used
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 2001-05-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375757518

Country	USA
Brand	Modern Library
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0375757511_used
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	2001-05-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375757518

Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library (Paperback))

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