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    Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker
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    Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker
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    Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker

    Written by David Remnick

    Narrated by Amy Irving, Philip Bosco and Alton Fitzgerald White

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    About this audiobook

    One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the twenties and thirties, such as Henry Luce and Isadora Duncan, and continuing to the present, with complex pictures of such contemporaries as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Richard Pryor, this collection of New Yorker Profiles presents readers with a portrait gallery of some of the most prominent figures of the twentieth century. These Profiles are literary-journalistic investigations into character and accomplishment, motive and madness, beauty and ugliness, and are unrivalled in their range, their variety of style, and their embrace of humanity.

    Including these twenty-eight profiles:

    "Mr. Hunter's Grave" by Joseph Mitchell
    "Secrets of the Magus" by Mark Singer
    "Isadora" by Janet Flanner
    "The Soloist" by Joan Acocella
    "Time . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luce" by Walcott Gibbs
    "Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody" by Ian Frazier
    "The Mountains of Pi" by Richard Preston
    "Covering the Cops" by Calvin Trillin
    "Travels in Georgia" by John McPhee
    "The Man Who Walks on Air" by Calvin Tomkins
    "A House on Gramercy Park" by Geoffrey Hellman
    "How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?" by Lillian Ross
    "The Education of a Prince" by Alva Johnston
    "White Like Me" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
    "Wunderkind" by A. J. Liebling
    "Fifteen Years of The Salto Mortale" by Kenneth Tynan
    "The Duke in His Domain" by Truman Capote
    "A Pryor Love" by Hilton Als
    "Gone for Good" by Roger Angell
    "Lady with a Pencil" by Nancy Franklin
    "Dealing with Roseanne" by John Lahr
    "The Coolhunt" by Malcolm Gladwell
    "Man Goes to See a Doctor" by Adam Gopnik
    "Show Dog" by Susan Orlean
    "Forty-One False Starts" by Janet Malcolm
    "The Redemption" by Nicholas Lemann
    "Gore Without a Script" by Nicholas Lemann
    "Delta Nights" by Bill Buford
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 29, 2000
    ISBN9780739322239
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    Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker
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    David Remnick

    David Remnick has been the editor of The New Yorker since 1998 and a staff writer since 1992. His books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire, King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, and two collections of his magazine pieces.

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    • 5/5
      They are all wonderful but especially Truman Capote's profile of Marlon Brando, Lillian Ross's of Hemingway, and Joseph Mitchell's utterly moving rendering of an otherwise unknown elderly black man from Staten Island.
    • 4/5
      Biographical essays of 30 people, mostly American, which appeared in The New Yorker magazine from 1920's up to 2000. Some of these are absolutely fascinating and most are very interesting glimpses into the life and soul of another human being. Wonderful to have around and dip into from time to time.