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Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker

Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker

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  • David Remnick
  • Modern Library
  • Paperback
  • 9780375757518
  • 9.2 X 6.1 X 1.4 inches
  • 1.65 pounds
  • Biography & Autobiography > Reference
  • English
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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, 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:

Mr. Hunter's Grave by Joseph Mitchell
Secrets of the Magus by Mark Singer
Isadora by Janet Flanner
The Soloist by Joan Acocella
Time . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luce by Walcott Gibbs
Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody by Ian Frazier
The Mountains of Pi by Richard Preston
Covering the Cops by Calvin Trillin
Travels in Georgia by John McPhee
The Man Who Walks on Air by Calvin Tomkins
A House on Gramercy Park by Geoffrey Hellman
How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? by Lillian Ross
The Education of a Prince by Alva Johnston
White Like Me by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Wunderkind by A. J. Liebling
Fifteen Years of The Salto Mortale by Kenneth Tynan
The Duke in His Domain by Truman Capote
A Pryor Love by Hilton Als
Gone for Good by Roger Angell
Lady with a Pencil by Nancy Franklin
Dealing with Roseanne by John Lahr
The Coolhunt by Malcolm Gladwell
Man Goes to See a Doctor by Adam Gopnik
Show Dog by Susan Orlean
Forty-One False Starts by Janet Malcolm
The Redemption by Nicholas Lemann
Gore Without a Script by Nicholas Lemann
Delta Nights by Bill Buford

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