
The Receptionist
An Education at The New Yorker
Janet Groth(Author)
Algonquin Books (Publisher)
Published on 11. June 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-61620-306-1 (ISBN)
Description
In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn't expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, and was seduced, two-timed, and proposed to by a few of the magazine's eccentric luminaries. This memoir of a particular time and place is an enchanting tale of a woman in search of herself.
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"Revelatory... deeply reflective... Groth chronicles the many dazzling personalities whose lives touched, and moved, hers." (Publishers Weekly)"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Workman Publishing
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Paperback (UK-trade)
ISBN-13
978-1-61620-306-1 (9781616203061)
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06/2013
Little, Brown and Company
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Person
Janet Groth, Emeritus Professor of English at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, has also taught at Vassar, Brooklyn College, the University of Cincinnati, and Columbia. She was a Fulbright lecturer in Norway and a visiting fellow at Yale and is the author of Edmund Wilson: A Critic for Our Time (for which she won the NEMLA Book Award) and coauthor of Critic in Love: A Romantic Biography of Edmund Wilson. She lives in New York City.