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"Lively, detailed, and filled with humanity and wit. Her tour of good writing [is] a wonderful journalism handbook, memoir, and addition to books on the New Yorker ."- Booklist . For half a century, Lillian Ross has been writing remarkable and timeless journalism for The New Yorker . Her spirited, funny, factual short stories in The Talk of the Town and her unforgettable profiles have won her a legion of admirers. Reporting Back: Notes on Journalism reprints some of her best-loved pieces, and some new ones, along with her own commentary. A primer on good writing, a tribute to the art of journalism, Reporting Back is not only a casebook for writing, it is the unforgettable record of Lillian Ross's joy in the pursuit of excellence in reporting.
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.
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.
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