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Holding the Note
David Remnick
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‘Always up close and personal, always tenacious and informed by
deep background, and always vivid and veracious’ The Times -----
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 lives and work of
some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the
past fifty years. He portrays a series of musical lives – Leonard
Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen,
Patti Smith, and more – and their unique encounters with the
passing of that essential element of music: time. These are
intimate portraits of some of the greatest creative minds of our
time written with a lifetime’s passionate attachment to music
that has shaped us all.
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The January 6th Report (Paperback)
Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, David Remnick, Jamie Raskin
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A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in
America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi
Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New
Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America,
with astonishing early work from Rebecca West's account of a
lynching trial and James Baldwin's 'Letter from a Region in My
Mind' (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time) to more
recent writing by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith,
Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St. Felix, Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
Kelefa Sanneh, and more. Reaching back across the last century, The
Matter of Black Lives includes a wide array of material from the
New Yorker archives ranging across essays, reported pieces,
profiles, criticism, and historical pieces. This book addresses
everything from the arts to civil rights, matters of justice, and
politics, and brings us up to the present day with accounts of what
Jelani Cobb calls "The American Spring." The result is a startling,
nuanced and, ultimately, indelible portrait of America's complex
relationship with race.
A classic collection of the New Yorker's most urgent and
groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate
emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen
first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth
was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to
humankind's heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker writer
Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered piece on
climate change and what it could mean for the planet. At the time,
the piece was to some speculative to the point of alarmist; read
now, McKibben's work is heroically prescient. Since then, the New
Yorker has devoted enormous attention to climate change, describing
the causes of the crisis, the political and ecological conditions
we now find ourselves in, and the scenarios and solutions we face.
The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate change - its past,
present, and future - taking readers from Greenland to the Great
Plains, and into both laboratories and rain forests. It features
some of the best writing on global warming from the last three
decades, including Bill McKibben's seminal essay 'The End of
Nature,' the first piece to popularize both the science and
politics of climate change for a general audience, and the Pulitzer
Prize-winning work of Elizabeth Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz,
Dexter Filkins, Jonathan Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and
others. The result, in its range, depth, and passion, promises to
bring light, and sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age.
New York City is not only The New Yorker's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood; it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town collects superb short fiction by many of the magazine's and this country's most accomplished writers. Like all good fiction, these stories take particular places, particular people, and particular events and turn them into dramas of universal enlightenment and emotional impact. Here New York is every great place and every ordinary place. Each life in it, and each life in Wonderful Town, is the life of us all.
A collection of the New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in
America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi
Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more From the pages of the New
Yorker comes a bold and telling portrait of Black life in America,
with astonishing early work from Rebecca West's account of a
lynching trial and James Baldwin's 'Letter from a Region in My
Mind' (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time) to more
recent writing by Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Zadie Smith,
Hilton Als, Jamaica Kincaid, Malcolm Gladwell, Elizabeth Alexander,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Doreen St. Felix, Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
Kelefa Sanneh, and more. Reaching back across the last century, The
Matter of Black Lives includes a wide array of material from the
New Yorker archives ranging across essays, reported pieces,
profiles, criticism, and historical pieces. This book addresses
everything from the arts to civil rights, matters of justice, and
politics, and brings us up to the present day with accounts of what
Jelani Cobb calls "The American Spring." The result is a startling,
nuanced and, ultimately, indelible portrait of America's complex
relationship with race.
With an introduction by Salman Rushdie and an afterword by the
author. It was the night of February 25, 1964. A cloud of cigar
smoke drifted through the ring lights. Cassius Clay threw punches
into the gray floating haze and waited for the bell. When Cassius
Clay burst onto the sports scene in the 1950s, he broke the mould.
He changed the world of sports and went on to change the world
itself: from his early fights as Cassius Clay, the young, wiry man
from Louisville, unwilling to play the noble and grateful warrior
in a white world, to becoming Muhammad Ali, the voice of black
America and the most recognized face on the planet. King of the
World is the story of an incredible rise to power, a book of
battles fought inside the ring and out. With grace and power,
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David Remnick tells of a transcendent
athlete and entertainer, a rapper before rap was born. Ali was a
mirror of his era, a dynamic figure in the racial and cultural
clashes of his time and King of the World is a classic piece of
non-fiction and a book worthy of America's most dynamic modern
hero.
The definitive collection of artist profiles by legendary journalist and New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, from the 1960s to today
When Calvin Tomkins joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1960, he did not plan to make art and living artists his main subjects. And yet, auspiciously for the magazine and its readers, Tomkins did just that. For the last six decades, his profiles of contemporary artists, from Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg to Cindy Sherman and Mark Bradford, have become the liveliest and most authoritative guide to the art of our time. These six volumes contain eighty-two of Tomkins’s profiles, from 1962 to 2019. Balancing insight and observation with wit, candor, and appreciation, Tomkins is a master of the profile―his indelible prose forming fascinating portraits, each a work of art in its own right.
In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this bestselling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism. "A moving illumination . . . Remnick is the witness for us all."--Wall Street Journal.
A classic collection of the New Yorker’s most urgent and
groundbreaking reporting from the front lines of the climate
emergency In 1989, just one year after climatologist James Hansen
first came before a Senate committee and testified that the earth
was now warmer than it had ever been in recorded history, thanks to
humankind’s heedless consumption of fossil fuels, New Yorker
writer Bill McKibben published a deeply reported and considered
piece on climate change and what it could mean for the planet. At
the time, the piece was to some speculative to the point of
alarmist; read now, McKibben’s work is heroically prescient.
Since then, the New Yorker has devoted enormous attention to
climate change, describing the causes of the crisis, the political
and ecological conditions we now find ourselves in, and the
scenarios and solutions we face. The Fragile Earth tells the story
of climate change – its past, present, and future – taking
readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both
laboratories and rain forests. It features some of the best writing
on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill
McKibben’s seminal essay ‘The End of Nature,’ the first piece
to popularize both the science and politics of climate change for a
general audience, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning work of Elizabeth
Kolbert, as well as Kathryn Schulz, Dexter Filkins, Jonathan
Franzen, Ian Frazier, Eric Klinenberg, and others. The result, in
its range, depth, and passion, promises to bring light, and
sometimes heat, to the great emergency of our age.
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The 40s: The Story of a Decade (Paperback)
The New Yorker Magazine; Edited by Henry Finder; Introduction by David Remnick; Contributions by W.H Auden, Elizabeth Bishop
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Readers know from his now classic Lenin's Tomb that Remnick is a
superb portraitist who can bring his subjects to life and reveal
them in such surprising ways as to justify comparison to Dickens,
Balzac, or Proust. In this collection, Remnick's gift for character
is sharper than ever, whether he writes about Gary Hart stumbling
through life after Donna Rice or Mario Cuomo, who now presides over
a Saturday morning radio talk show, fielding questions from
crackpots, or about Michael Jordan's awesome return to the Chicago
Bulls -- or Reggie Jackson's last times at bat.
Remnick's portraits of such disparate characters as Alger Hiss and
Ralph Ellison, Richard Nixon and Elaine Pagels, Gerry Adams and
Marion Barry are unified by this extraordinary ability to create a
living character, so that the pieces in this book, taken together,
constitute a splendid pageant of the representative characters of
our time.
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.
William Shawn once called The Talk of the Town the soul of the magazine. The section began in the first issue, in 1925. But it wasn't until a couple of years later, when E. B. White and James Thurber arrived, that the Talk of the Town story became what it is today: a precise piece of journalism that always gets the story and has a little fun along the way.
The Fun of It is the first anthology of Talk pieces that spans the magazine's life. Edited by Lillian Ross, the longtime Talk reporter and New Yorker staff writer, the book brings together pieces by the section's most original writers. Only in a collection of Talk stories will you find E. B. White visiting a potter's field; James Thurber following Gertrude Stein at Brentano's; Geoffrey Hellman with Cole Porter at the Waldorf Towers; A. J. Liebling on a book tour with Albert Camus; Maeve Brennan ventriloquizing the long-winded lady; John Updike navigating the passageways of midtown; Calvin Trillin marching on Washington in 1963; Jacqueline Onassis chatting with Cornell Capa; Ian Frazier at the Monster Truck and Mud Bog Fall Nationals; John McPhee in virgin forest; Mark Singer with sixth-graders adopting Hudson River striped bass; Adam Gopnik in Flatbush visiting the ìgrandest theatre devoted exclusively to the movies; Hendrik Hertzberg pinning down a Sulzberger on how the Times got colorized; George Plimpton on the tennis court with Boris Yeltsin; and Lillian Ross reporting good little stories for more than forty-five years. They and dozens of other Talk contributors provide an entertaining tour of the most famous section of the most famous magazine in the world.
From the inimitable New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross--"a
collection of her most luminous New Yorker pieces" (Entertainment
Weekly, grade: A).A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1945,
Lillian Ross is one of the few journalists who worked for both the
magazine's founding editor, Harold Ross, and its current editor,
David Remnick. She "made journalistic history by pioneering the
kind of novelistic nonfiction that inspired later work" (The New
York Times). Reporting Always is a collection of Ross's iconic New
Yorker profiles and "Talk of the Town" pieces that spans forty
years. "This glorious collection by a master of the form" (Susan
Orlean) brings the reader into the hotel rooms of Ernest Hemingway,
John Huston, and Charlie Chaplin; Robin Williams's living room and
movie set; Harry Winston's office; the tennis court with John
McEnroe; Ellen Barkin's New York City home, the crosstown bus with
upper east side school children; and into the lives of other
famous, and not so famous, individuals. "Millennials would do well
to study Ross and to study her closely," says Lena Dunham. Whether
reading for pleasure or to learn about the craft, Reporting Always
is a joy for readers of all ages.
"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 more, it has
also remained true to its original mission. Now an uproarious
sampling of its funny writings can be found in a hilarious new
collection, one as satirical and witty, misanthropic and menacing,
as the first, "Fierce Pajamas." From the 1920s onward-but with a
special focus on the latest generation-here are the humorists who
set the pace and stirred the pot, pulled the leg and pinched the
behind of America.
S. J. Perelman unearths the furious letters of a foreign
correspondent in India to the laundry he insists on using in Paris
("Who charges six francs to wash a cummerbund?!"). Woody Allen
recalls the "Whore of Mensa," who excites her customers by reading
Proust (or, if you want, two girls will explain Noam Chomsky).
Steve Martin's pill bottle warns us of side effects ranging from
hair that smells of burning tires to teeth receiving radio
broadcasts. Andy Borowitz provides his version of theater-lobby
notices ("In Act III, there is full frontal nudity, but not
involving the actor you would like to see naked"). David Owen's
rules for dating his ex-wife start out magnanimous and swiftly
disintegrate into sarcasm, self-loathing, and rage, and Noah
Baumbach unfolds a history of his last relationship in the form of
Zagat reviews.
Meanwhile, off in a remote "willage" in Normandy, David Sedaris is
drowning a mouse ("This was for the best, whether the mouse
realized it or not").
Plus asides, fancies, rebukes, and musings from Patty Marx, Calvin
Trillin, Bruce McCall, Garrison Keillor, Veronica Geng, Ian
Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., and many others.
If laughter is the best medicine, "Disquiet, Please" is truly a
wonder drug.
"From the Hardcover edition."
A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way -
Roger Angell on the art of the martini - Don DeLillo on Jell-O -
Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup - Jane Kramer on the
writer's kitchen - Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin - Steve
Martin on menu mores - Alice McDermott on sex and ice cream -
Dorothy Parker on dinner conversation - S. J. Perelman on a
hollandaise assassin - Calvin Trillin on New York's best bagel
In this indispensable collection, "The New Yorker "dishes up a
feast of delicious writing-food and drink memoirs, short stories,
tell-alls, and poems, seasoned with a generous dash of cartoons.
M.F.K. Fisher pays homage to "cookery witches," those mysterious
cooks who possess "an uncanny power over food," and Adam Gopnik
asks if French cuisine is done for. There is Roald Dahl's famous
story "Taste," in which a wine snob's palate comes in for some
unwelcome scrutiny, and Julian Barnes's ingenious tale of a
lifelong gourmand who goes on a very peculiar diet. Whether you're
in the mood for snacking on humor pieces and cartoons or for
savoring classic profiles of great chefs and great eaters, these
offerings, from every age of "The New Yorker"'s fabled eighty-year
history, are sure to satisfy every taste.
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