Reporting at Wit's End : Tales from the New Yorker (Paperback)

from ElizabethChapman

I must admit I feel misgivings any time I set out to read a 600+ page book. Six hundred pages seems utterly interminable when I've chosen poorly, and I cast longing glances at all the unread books on my shelf - each impatiently waiting their turn for my attention. So when the LibraryThing Early R...

from krisa

What a great discovery! McKelway was an amazing witer with a gift for the tiny details that describe a life, like " Average Cop", or the quirky underside of a city,"Having Fun With the FBI". I truly enjoyed this book and have already recommended it to freinds as a must read. Kris Alsbrooks

from abealy

I've had a continuous New Yorker subscription since the early 80's and one of my greatest regrets is that I could never look forward to picking up the magazine that arrived at my door every week and open it to a story by Joseph Mitchell, A.J.Leibling or St. Clair McKelway (not to mention E. B.Whi...

from cyclokitty

I first discovered St. Clair McKelway in Roger Angell's piece, "The Guam Caper" published in the February 15, 2010 issue of The New Yorker, so I was delighted to find the early reviewer's copy of Reporting at Wits' End: Tales from the New Yorker propped against my door. Aside from a year or two w...

from richardderus

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, there was a magazine called The New Yorker that published superb writing and made money doing it. That day, I fear, has passed; the magazine probably doesn't make money and I think its *superb* writing is thinner on the ground than once was the case....