Life stories : profiles from the New Yorker
Edition
Newly expanded ed.
Publication Information
New York : Modern LIbrary, 2001.
Physical Description
xii, 604 p. ; 24 cm.
Added Uniform Title
Contents
- Mr. Hunter's grave (George F. Hunter) / Joseph Mitchell
- Secrets of the magus (Ricky Jay) / Mark Singer
- Isadora (Isadora Duncan) / Janet Flanner
- Soloist (Mikhail Baryshnikov) / Joan Acocella
- Time, fortune, life, Luce (Henry Robinson Luce) / Wolcott Gibbs
- Nobody better, better than nobody (Heloise) / Ian Frazier
- Mountains of pi (Chudnovsky brothers) / Richard Preston
- Covering the cops (Edna Buchanan) / Calvin Trillin
- Travels in Georgia (Carol Ruckdeschel) / John McPhee
- Man who walks on air (Philippe Petit) / Calvin Tomkins
- House on Gramercy Park (Benjamin Sonnenberg) / Geoffrey Hellman
- How do you like it now, gentlemen? (Ernest Hemingway) / Lillian Ross
- Education of a prince (Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff) / Alva Johnston
- White like me (Anatole Broyard) / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Wunderkind (Floyd Patterson) / A.J. Liebling
- Fifteen years of the salto mortale (Johnny Carson) / Kenneth Tynan
- Duke in his domain (Marlon Brando) / Truman Capote
- Pryor love (Richard Pryor) / Hilton Als
- Gone for good (Steve Blass) / Roger Angell
- Lady with a pencil (Katharine White) / Nancy Franklin
- Dealing with Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) / John Lahr
- Coolhunt (Baysie Wightman and DeeDee Gordon) / Malcolm Gladwell
- Man goes to see a doctor (Max Grosskurth) / Adam Gopnik
- Show dog (Biff Truesdale) / Susan Orlean
- Forty-one false starts (David Salle) / Janet Malcolm
- Redemption (George W. Bush) / Nicholas Lemann
- Gore without a script (Al Gore)
- Nicholas Lemann
- Delta nights (Lucinda Williams) / Bill Buford.