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Just Enough Liebling

by A. J. Liebling

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ISBN13: 9780865477278
ISBN10: 0865477272
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Abbott Joseph Liebling was one of the greatest of all New Yorker writers, a colorful figure who helped set the magazine's urbane tone and style. Just Enough Liebling gathers in one volume the vividest and most enjoyable of his pieces. Charles McGrath (in The New York Times Book Review) praised it as "a judicious sampling-a useful window on Liebling's vast body of writing and a reminder, to those lucky enough to have read him the first time around, of why he was so beloved." Today Liebling is best known as a celebrant of the "sweet science" of boxing, and as a "feeder" who ravishes the reader with his descriptions of food and wine. But as David Remnick observes in his fond and insightful introduction, Liebling is "boundlessly curious, a listener, a boulevardier, a man of appetites and sympathy"-and a writer who, with his great friend and colleague Joseph Mitchell, deftly traversed the boundaries between reporting and storytelling, between news and art.

About the Author

A. J. Liebling, born October 18, 1904, joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles before his death in 1963.

Table of Contents

Introduction by David Remnick

At Table in Paris

     A Good Appetite

     Paris the First

     Just Enough Money

The War and After

     Letter from Paris, December 22, 1939

     Letter from Paris, June 1, 1940

     Westbound Tanker

     The Foamy Fields

     Quest for Mollie

     Days with the Daydaybay

     The Hounds with Sad Voices

City Life

     The Jollity Building

     from The Honest Rainmaker

Boxiana     Sugar Ray and the Milling Cove

     Ahab and Nemesis

     The University of Eighth Avenue

     Poet and Pedagogue

The Press

     The World of Sport

     My Name in Big Letters

     Obits

     The Man Who Changed the Rules

     Death on the One Hand

     Harold Ross—The Impresario

The Earl of Louisiana

     "Joe Sims, Where the Hell?"

     Nothing but a Little Pissant

     Blam-Blam-Blam

Epilogue     Paysage de Crépuscule

Product Details

ISBN:
9780865477278
Subtitle:
Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer
Introduction:
Remnick, David
Introduction:
Remnick, David
Author:
Liebling, A. J.
Publisher:
North Point Press
Subject:
General
Subject:
Essays
Publication Date:
September 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
534
Dimensions:
822x548x153 115

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