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Book

Reporting at wit's end : tales from The New Yorker

Call Number

  • 814 M479 (CEN)

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Edition

1st U.S. ed.

Publication Information

New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2010.

Physical Description

xix, 620 p. ; 21 cm.

Contents

  • The 1930s. Firebug-catcher
  • Place and leave with
  • The innocent man at Sing Sing
  • Average cop
  • Who is this king of glory? (with A.J. Liebling)
  • The 1940s
  • Some fun with the F.B.I.
  • Mister 880
  • The cigar, the three wings, and the low-level attacks
  • The wily Wilby
  • Gossip writer
  • The 1950s. The blowing of the top of Peter Roger Oboe
  • The cockatoo
  • A case of felony murder
  • This is it, honey
  • The perils of Pearl and Olga
  • The rich recluse of Herald Square
  • The 1960s. The Edinburgh caper
  • The big little man from Brooklyn.