Bibliograph

Life stories, profiles from the New Yorker, edited by David Remnick

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Label

Life stories, profiles from the New Yorker, edited by David Remnick

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Life stories

Oclc number

45899943

Responsibility statement

edited by David Remnick

Sub title

profiles from the New Yorker

Table Of Contents

Mr. Hunter's grave (George F. Hunter) / Joseph Mitchell -- Secrets of the magus (Ricky Jay) / Mark Singer -- Isadora (Isadora Duncan) / Janet Flanner -- The soloist (Mikhail Baryshnikov) / Joan Acocella -- Time ... Fortune ... Life ... Luce (Henry Robinson Luce) / Wolcott Gibbs -- Nobody better, better than nobody (Heloise) / Ian Frazier -- The mountains of Pi / (the Chudnovsky Brothers) / Richard Preston -- Covering the cops (Edna Buchanan) / Calvin Trillin -- Travels in Georgia (Carol Ruckdeschel) / John McPhee -- The man who walks on air (Philippe Petit) / Calvin Tomkins -- A House on Gramercy Park (Benjamin Sonnenberg / Geoffrey Hellman -- How do you like it now, Gentlemen? (Ernest Hemingway) / Lillian Ross -- The 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 -- The duke in his domain (Marlon Brando) / Truman Capote -- A 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 -- The coolhunt (Basie Wightman and DeeDee Gordon) / Malcolm Gladwell -- Man goes to see a doctor (Max Grosskurth) / Adam Gopnik -- Whow dog (Biff Truesdale) / Susan Orlean -- Forty-one false starts (David Salle) / Janet Malcolm -- The redemption (George W. Bush) / Nicholas Lemann -- Delta nights (Lucinda Williams) / Bill Buford

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