The Receptionist: An Education at the New Yorker

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.

Author: Janet Groth
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 06/11/2013
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.60w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781616203061
ISBN10: 1616203064
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures