The Receptionist : An Education at the New Yorker (Hardcover)

from Iambookish

I requested this book from my library thinking it would be an interesting insiders view of The New Yorker magazine in the 50's & 60's. Instead what we got was a water downed memoir about the author's sexipades during the swinging 60's. When she did discuss people from the magazine she often used ...

from dysmonia

This is the memoir of a woman not who did amazing things, but who knew intriguing people.

from dysmonia

This is the memoir of a woman not who did amazing things, but who knew intriguing people.

from dysmonia

This is the memoir of a woman not who did amazing things, but who knew intriguing people.

from rosalita

I wanted this memoir to be so much more than it actually is. The author spent almost 20 years as a receptionist on the "writers' floor" at The New Yorker magazine during the 1960s and 1970s. I had hoped for some entertaining insights into the world of magazine publishing at that time in history, ...