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Informationen zum Autor A. J. Liebling , born October 18, 1904, joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles before his death in 1963. Klappentext Abbott Joseph Liebling was one of the greatest of all New Yorker writers, a colorful figure who helped set the magazine's urbane tone and style. Just Enough Liebling gathers in one volume the vividest and most enjoyable of his pieces. Charles McGrath (in The New York Times Book Review ) praised it as "a judicious sampling-a useful window on Liebling's vast body of writing and a reminder, to those lucky enough to have read him the first time around, of why he was so beloved." Today Liebling is best known as a celebrant of the "sweet science" of boxing, and as a "feeder" who ravishes the reader with his descriptions of food and wine. But as David Remnick observes in his fond and insightful introduction, Liebling is "boundlessly curious, a listener, a boulevardier, a man of appetites and sympathy"-and a writer who, with his great friend and colleague Joseph Mitchell, deftly traversed the boundaries between reporting and storytelling, between news and art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction by David Remnick At Table in Paris A Good Appetite Paris the First Just Enough Money The War and After Letter from Paris, December 22, 1939 Letter from Paris, June 1, 1940 Westbound Tanker The Foamy Fields Quest for Mollie Days with the Daydaybay The Hounds with Sad Voices City Life The Jollity Building from The Honest Rainmaker Boxiana Sugar Ray and the Milling Cove Ahab and Nemesis The University of Eighth Avenue Poet and Pedagogue The Press The World of Sport My Name in Big Letters Obits The Man Who Changed the Rules Death on the One Hand Harold Ross-The Impresario The Earl of Louisiana "Joe Sims, Where the Hell?" Nothing but a Little Pissant Blam-Blam-Blam Epilogue Paysage de Crépuscule ...
