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PUBLISHED
New York : Random House, [2000]
©2000
©2000
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xii, 530 pages ; 26 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0375503552
LANGUAGE
English
CONTENTS
Mr. Hunter's grave (George F. Hunter) /
Joseph Mitchell -- Secrets of the magus (Ricky Jay) /
Mark Singer -- Isadora (Isadora Duncan) /
Janet Flanner -- Soloist (Mikhail Baryshnikov) /
Joan Acocella -- Time, fortune, life, Luce (Henry Robinson Luce) /
Wolcott Gibbs -- Nobody better, better than nobody (Heloise) /
Ian Frazier -- Mountains of pi (the Chudnovsky brothers) /
Richard Preston -- Covering the cops (Edna Buchanan) /
Calvin Trillin -- Travels in Georgia (Carol Ruckdeschel) /
John McPhee -- Man who walks on air (Philippe Petit) /
Calvin Tomkins -- A house on Gramercy Park (Benjamin Sonnenberg) /
Geoffrey Hellman -- How do you like it now, gentlemen? (Ernest Hemingway) /
Lillian Ross -- Education of a prince (Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff) /
Alva Johnston -- White like me (Anatole Broyard) /
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Wunderkind (Floyd Patterson) /
A.J. Liebling -- Fifteen years of the salto mortale (Johnny Carson) /
Kenneth Tynan -- Duke in his domain (Marlon Brando) /
Truman Capote -- A Pryor love (Richard Pryor) /
Hilton Als -- Gone for good (Steve Blass) /
Roger Angell -- Lady with a pencil (Katharine White) /
Nancy Franklin -- Dealing with Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) /
John Lahr -- Coolhunt (Baysie Wightman and DeeDee Gordon) /
Malcolm Gladwell -- Man goes to see a doctor (Max Grosskurth) /
Adam Gopnik -- Show dog (Biff Truesdale) /
Susan Orlean -- Forty-one false starts (David Salle) /
Janet Malcolm