Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library (Paperback))

ISBN: 0375757511

Author: David Remnick

Condition: New

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. Hunters Grave by Joseph MitchellSecrets of the Magus by Mark SingerIsadora by Janet FlannerThe Soloist by Joan AcocellaTime . . . Fortune . . . Life . . . Luce by Walcott GibbsNobody Better, Better Than Nobody by Ian FrazierThe Mountains of Pi by Richard PrestonCovering the Cops by Calvin TrillinTravels in Georgia by John McPheeThe Man Who Walks on Air by Calvin TomkinsA House on Gramercy Park by Geoffrey HellmanHow Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? by Lillian RossThe Education of a Prince by Alva JohnstonWhite Like Me by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Wunderkind by A. J. LieblingFifteen Years of The Salto Mortale by Kenneth TynanThe Duke in His Domain by Truman CapoteA Pryor Love by Hilton AlsGone for Good by Roger AngellLady with a Pencil by Nancy FranklinDealing with Roseanne by John LahrThe Coolhunt by Malcolm GladwellMan Goes to See a Doctor by Adam GopnikShow Dog by Susan OrleanForty-One False Starts by Janet MalcolmThe Redemption by Nicholas LemannGore Without a Script by Nicholas LemannDelta Nights by Bill Buford