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The Receptionist
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.
La Réceptionniste
Janet Groth entre au New Yorker en 1957 – pour en repartir en 1978. Vingt-et-un ans de bons et loyaux services derrière le desk du plus prestigieux magazine américain. Elle y débarque toute jeune femme – dix-neuf ans, belle, ambitieuse, des étoiles plein les yeux et des rêves plein la tête – elle en ressort diplômée de littérature et professeur. Car au 18e étage de la mythique revue, Janet rêve d'écrire, un jour... Mais avant cela, il s'agit de répondre au téléphone, conseiller, accompagner, raccompagner, rassurer les conjoints, transmettre les messages de cette faune cosmopolite d'auteurs à contenter. Parmi ces personnages haut-en-couleurs, on retrouve Joseph Mitchell ...
Critic in Love
An account of the life of the foremost twentieth-century literary and social critic explores his numerous romantic relationships by correspondence through letters written to such women as poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer and intellectual Mary McCarthy, and screenwriter and journalist Penelope Gilliatt.
Drawn to Landscape
"J. B. (John Brinckerhoff) Jackson founded, edited, and published Landscape from 1951–1969, v. 1-32, no. 2; spring 1951-1994] a magazine that changed the way everyone—including writers and scholars, planners and designers, artists and the general public—came to understand and interpret the everyday places that surround us and influence us in fundamental ways. Then, through his distinguished teaching career at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley, and through his expansive array of seminal essays and influential books, Jackson further pioneered the advancement of "landscape studies," whose connections today extend to more than a dozen academic, artistic, and pro...
Everyday America
A collection of seventeen essays examining the field of American cultural landscapes past and present. The role of J. B. Jackson and his influence on the field is a explored in many of them.
The John McPhee Reader
The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said "is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit," who has been called "a master craftsman" so many times that it is pointless to number them.
Edmund Wilson
In the course of a career that spanned five decades, Edmund Wilson's literary output was impressive. His life's work includes five volumes of poetry, two works of fiction, thirteen plays, and more than twenty volumes of social commentary on travel, politics, history, religion, anthropology, and economics. It is, however, his criticism for which Wilson is best known. To note a few of his accomplishments as a critic, Wilson furthered the understanding and appreciation of the poetry of W.B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot, promoted the enigmatic prose of Marcel Proust and James Joyce, and pioneered the study of women writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, and Kate Chopin. With the advent o...
International Handbook of Research in Statistics Education
This handbook connects the practice of statistics to the teaching and learning of the subject with contributions from experts in several disciplines. Chapters present current challenges and methods of statistics education in the changing world for statistics and mathematics educators. Issues addressed include current and future challenges in professional development of teachers, use of technology tools, design of learning environments and appropriate student assessments. This handbook presents challenging and inspiring international research perspectives on the history and nature, current issues, and future directions of statistics education and statistics education research.
Freedom's Cap
The modern United States Capitol is a triumph of both engineering and design. From its 9-million-pound cast-iron dome to the dazzling opulence of the President's Room and the Senate corridors, the Capitol is one of the most renowned buildings in the world. But the history of the U.S. Capitol is also the history of America's most tumultuous years. As the new Capitol rose above Washington's skyline, battles over slavery and secession ripped the country apart. Ground was broken just months after Congress adopted the compromise of 1850, which was supposed to settle the "slavery question" for all time. The statue Freedom was placed atop the Capitol's new dome in 1863, five months after the Battle...
