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The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker
The LongWinded Lady Notes from the New Yorker Author:Maeve Brennan From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan contributed to 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 the streets, diners, and cheap hotels just off Times Square--are a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she calls the "most ambitious, most comical...sa... more »ddest and coldest and most human of cities."« less