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.
- ISBN10 1616201312
- ISBN13 9781616201319
- Publish Date 26 June 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 1 July 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 229
- Language English