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Disquiet, Please! by David Remnick
$40.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: Modern Library
"The New Yorker" is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years it's also been a hoot. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in this collection, by turns satirical and witty, misanthropic and me ...Show more
Disquiet, Please! - More Humor Writing from the New Yorker by David Remnick (ed.); Henry Finder (ed.)
$60.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour
"The New Yorker" is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years, it's also been a hoot. In fact, when Harold Ross founded the legendary magazine in 1925, he called it "a comic weekly," and while it has grown into much ...Show more
Fierce Pajamas by David Remnick
$30.00 AUD
Category: Gifts & Humour | Series: Modern Library
When Harold Ross founded "The New Yorker" in 1925, he called it a "comic weekly." And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder's description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era--among them Robert Benchley, D ...Show more
Holding the Note: Writing on Music by David Remnick
$37.00 AUD
Category: Music
The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick writes about the ...Show more
Life Stories - Profiles from The New Yorker by David Remnick
$34.95 AUD
Category: Literary | Series: Modern Library
a Dazzling collection of biographical profiles of some of the most important and most captivating figures of our century.
Secret Ingredients - The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink by David Remnick (ed.)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Modern Library
In this indispensable collection, "The New Yorker" dishes up a feast of delicious food writing--food and drink memoirs, short stories, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons.
The 40sThe Story of a Decade by New Yorker Magazine Staff; Henry Finder (Editor); David Remnick (Introduction by); W. H. Auden (Contribution by); Elizabeth Bishop (Contribution by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
Including contributions by W. H. Auden - Elizabeth Bishop - John Cheever - Janet Flanner - John Hersey - Langston Hughes - Shirley Jackson - A. J. Liebling - William Maxwell - Carson McCullers - Joseph Mitchell - Vladimir Nabokov - Ogden Nash - John O'Hara - George Orwell - V. S. Pritchett - Lillian Ros ...Show more
The 50s : The Story of a Decade by The New Yorker Magazine; Henry Finder (Editor); David Remnick (Introduction by); Elizabeth Bishop (Contribution by); Truman Capote (Contribution by)
$35.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
Including contributions by Elizabeth Bishop - Truman Capote - John Cheever - Roald Dahl - Janet Flanner - Nadine Gordimer - A. J. Liebling - Dwight Macdonald - Joseph Mitchell - Marianne Moore - Vladimir Nabokov - Sylvia Plath - V. S. Pritchett - Adrienne Rich - Lillian Ross - Philip Roth - Anne Sexton ...Show more
The 60sThe Story of a Decade by The New Yorker Magazine; Henry Finder (Editor); David Remnick (Introduction by); Renata Adler (Contribution by); Hannah Arendt (Contribution by)
$40.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century--including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike--alongside new assessments ...Show more
The Lives of Artists by Calvin Tomkins; David Remnick (Introduction by)
$200.00 AUD
Category: Art
The definitive collection of artist profiles by legendary journalist and New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, from the 1960s to todayIn 1959, Calvin Tomkins interviewed Marcel Duchamp for Newsweek, beginning his sixdecade- long career writing about art. He then joined The New Yorker, where he has contribut ...Show more
The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from the New Yorker by David Remnick
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Category: Sport | Series: Modern Library (Paperback)
For more than eighty years, "The New Yorker" has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. "The Only Game in Town" is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench, including such authors as Roger Angell, John Updike, Don DeLillo, and John McPhee ...Show more