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The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker Online O4lTm [E-BOOK] The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker Online [O4lTm.ebook] The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker Pdf Free Maeve Brennan audiobook | *ebooks | Download PDF | ePub | DOC Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #651704 in eBooks 2015-04-15 2015-04-15File Name: B00WRITSDI | File size: 18.Mb Maeve Brennan : The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker: 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Not long winded. .By David H.But rather almost a saint of observation, wit, integrity to her senses, and always, despite her joy in New York, a sadness infusing the joy. I know no other writer who so weds us to precise scenes and people yet pervades all in a razor sharp combination of the particular and the universal There is no writer to equal Maeve.9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Good in Short DosesBy J. JamakayaI looked forward to reading this collection of Brennan's New Yorker pieces but have mixed feelings about it. In dozens of short articles, Brennan acts as a sort of sophisticated voyeur, offering detailed observations about personal interactions in the restaurants, hotels, stores and streets of 1950's and 60's Manhattan. She's often perched nearby or gazing through a window witnessing lovers' quarrels, street protests, accidents, traffic patterns - both the drama and minutiae of city life.There's no question Brennan has a keen eye and an ability to capture interesting details about the people she observes. She has a crisp, clear writing style that makes the stories engaging to read. I think, however, that these stories probably worked better as occasional reads in the New Yorker. Reading one after another in this collection, they started to seem monotonous. Brennan is very detached, never makes judgments about what she's witnessing, and we never learn what really happened or what ultimately happens to the people observed from afar. For me, it seemed like such ephemeral incidents resulted in ephemeral writing.Writers I respect, like Emma Donoghue and Nicholson Baker, really admire Brennan, so I'm going to follow up at some point with one of her short story collections. She has a sharp mind and she's a good wordsmith. I look forward to seeing what she does with a little more character and plotting.5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Maeve, Maeve, MaeveBy student of the craftThis woman teaches you how to sit and observe. No other writer used her time so well and got so much out of such seemingly innocuous moments. Read this and learn to observe. And yes, you will wonder and fret a bit about her mental health. It was delicate. In the end, sadly, it failed her. But whooowheee, the woman could write. From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” department under the pen name “The Long-Winded Lady.” Her unforgettable sketches—prose snapshots of life in small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Times Square and the Village—together form a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she called the “most reckless, most ambitious, most confused, most comical, the saddest and coldest and most human of cities.” First published in 1969, The Long-Winded Lady is a celebration of one of The New Yorker’s finest writers. .com Editors at the New Yorker may come and go, but readers will always return for the great cartoons and the "Talk of the Town." One of the best-loved contributors to the latter--the magazine's own brand of gossip column--was Maeve Brennan who, from 1954 to 1981, offered her wry observations of New York life under the sobriquet "The Long-Winded Lady." This compendium of her articles was first published in 1969 and is now reprinted with the addition of nine more previously uncollected pieces. The result is the answer to every "Talk of the Town"-lover's prayer. Take, for example, "A Young Man with a Menu," in which Brennan watches "a young man persuade a girl to join him for dinner by reading the menu to her over the telephone." She describes the restaurant, Longchamps, as "ready-made for episodes of intrigue and pursuit" and the first appearance of the young man--"his expression as he entered the restaurant said that he was intent on something--one thing--and indifferent to everything else." She takes us through the phone call, which she observes from a distance: "He read from all sections of the menu. I had a menu of my own, so I could tell just about where he was." But, typically Brennan-like, she ushers us out of the piece just as the girl arrives, without letting us "even see the color of her hair." Every piece in this collection is as precise and as surprising as this one; anyone who loves New York, The New Yorker, or Maeve Brennan will savor The Long- Winded Lady. --Alix WilberFrom Publishers WeeklyThere's been a lot of rhapsodizing over the mythic heyday of the New Yorker under Harold Ross and Wallace Shawn. This aptly titled book, originally published in 1969 and long out of print, recalls how that heyday actually translated on the page. Although details of New York in an earlier time do have their appeal in this collection of columns that appeared in the magazine's "Talk of the Town" section from 1953 to 1968 (supplemented here by six other columns and three features), Brennan often displays what comes off as a grating smugness and an overly arch narrative distance. In "The Flower Children," Brennan watches from a window in her apartment on Washington Place while a Vietnam protest goes on below. Musing on "Movie Stars at Large," she recounts the time she watched Elizabeth Taylor filming a scene in Butterfield 8, then tells of a dream of hers involving Greta Garbo. Some of this material has aged badly, like the passage in "Just a Pair of Show-Offs" noting that "for over a year now Sixth Avenue has been monopolized by youngAvery youngAblack girls in huge gold and silver wigs." Brennan herself is never involved in any of these activities; she is merely an observer. Perhaps when read individually in the magazine these pieces were charming, or perhaps times have simply changed too much for such musings to hold appeal. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.From Kirkus sBrennan's luminous writings graced the New Yorker's ``Talk of the Town'' section for nearly 30 years. Dating mostly from the 1960s, these ``moments of recognition,'' as she called them, are delicately crafted summonings of a New York City that has mostly disappeared. Her sketches of life in Times Square and Greenwich Village ran under Brennans ``Long-Winded Lady'' pseudonym from 1954 to 1981. No other writer has so subtly or effectively captured ``the ordinary ways'' of the city's denizens. Eavesdropping in restaurants, in bars, and on street corners, Brennan illuminated the human condition with deceptive simplicity. Observing two ``opulently shaped girls'' at the Adams Restaurant on West 48th St., she notes, ``Their walk was sedate, as it might well be . their dresses did all the work.'' Watching a bejeweled, overdressed woman breakfasting at the Plaza, Brennan wonders, Was she splendidly unselfconscious, or was she ridiculous? I didn't know. I was tired of her.'' She mentions, in passing, the apartments she kept, uptown and downtown, over the years, and decries the coming of the 1960s ``ogre called office space'' that displaced townhouses and brownstones on the avenues she knew so well. Whether relating a clumsy encounter on the subway or etching a street scene, Brennan wrote extraordinary sentences such as this one, describing Washington Square at 6 a.m. following a night of rain: ``The air was mild and fresh, and shone with a faint unsteadiness that was exactly like the unsteadiness of color inside a seashell.'' Nine previously uncollected pieces are included here, in addition to the 47 that appeared in the books 1969 edition. Brennan exemplifies what the old New Yorker was all about. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. 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