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The Long-Winded Lady
The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker | Maeve Brennan
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From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town” department under the pen name “The Long-Winded Lady.” Her unforgettable sketches—prose snapshots of life in small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Times Square and the Village—together form a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she called the “most reckless, most ambitious, most confused, most comical, the saddest and coldest and most human of cities.” First published in 1969, The Long-Winded Lady is a celebration of one of The New Yorker’s finest writers.
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TheWordJar
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I'm a little late to the #spinepoetry party, but once I started browsing the bookshelves, I couldn't stop! Attempt #1. #marchintoreading

The long-winded lady, a reliable wife:
Just my type.

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I was reading this book on Oyster some months ago when the service shut down. It's not published in the UK so I waited awhile and finally got this gorgeous & pristine 1969 edition from the local library.

Brennan's style is a precursor to Sadie Stein's New York diaries – the same wandering feet, eyes and observations. Lovely of-the-moment essays of little consequence. Highly recommended.