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Life stories, profiles from The New Yorker, edited by David Remnick

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Life stories, profiles from The New Yorker, edited by David Remnick

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eng

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collective biography

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no index present

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non fiction

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Life stories

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edited by David Remnick

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profiles from The New Yorker

Table Of Contents

Introduction / David Remnick -- Mr. Hunter's grave (George F. Hunter) / Joseph Mitchell -- Secrets of the magus (Ricky Jay) / Mark Singer -- Isadora (Isadora Duncan) / Janet Flanner -- The soloist (mikhail Baryshnikov) / Joan Acocella -- Time, fortune, life, Luce (Henry Robinson Luce) / Wolcott Gibbs -- Nobody better, better than nobody (Heloise) / Ian Frazier -- The mountains of Pi (the Chudnovsky Brothers) / Richard Preston -- Covering the cops (Edna Buchanan) / Calvin Trillin -- Travels in Georgia (Carol Ruckdeschel) / Joh McPhee -- The man who walks on air (Philippe Petit) / Calvin Tomkins -- A house on Gramercy Park (Benjamin Sonnenberg) / Geoffrey HellmanHow do you like it now, gentlemen? (Ernest Hemingway) / Lillian Ross -- The 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 Tyman -- The 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 -- The 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

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Profiles from The New Yorker

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