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Wonderful Town
- New York Stories from The New Yorker
- Narrado por: Tyne Daly, Timothy Jerome, Joe Morton, Maria Tucci
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New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the 75-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its preeminent context with this collection of 44 of its best stories from (so to speak) home.
East Side? Philip Roth's chronically tormented alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, has just moved there, in "Smart Money". West Side? Isaac Bashevis Singer's narrator mingles with the customers in "The Cafeteria" (who debate politics and culture in four or five different languages) and becomes embroiled in an obsessional romance. And downtown, John Updike's Maples have begun their courtship of marital disaster, in "Snowing in Greenwich Village".
Wonderful Town touches on some of the city's famous places and stops at some of its more obscure corners, but the real guidebook in and between its lines is to the hearts and the minds of those who populate the metropolis built by its words. Like all good fiction, these stories take particular places, particular people, and particular events and turn them into dramas of universal enlightenment and emotional impact. Each life in it, and each life in Wonderful Town, is the life of us all.
Including these stories from the magazine's most iconic writers:
"The Five-Forty-Eight" by John Cheever
"Distant Music" by Ann Beattle
"Sailor off the Bremen" by Irwin Shaw
"Physics" by Tama Janowitz
"The Whore of Mensa" by Woody Allen
"What It Was Like, Seeing Chris" by Deborah Eisenberg
"Drawing Room B" by John O’Hara
"A Sentimental Journey" by Peter Taylor
"The Balloon" by Donald Barthelme
"Another Marvelous Thing" by Laurie Colwin
"The Failure" by Jonathan Franzen
"Apartment Hotel" by Sally Benson
"Midair" by Frank Conroy
"The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber
"I See You, Bianca" by Maeve Brennan
"You’re Ugly, Too" by Lorrie Moore
"Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov
"Poor Visitor" by Jamaica Kincaid
"In Greenwich, There Are Many Graveled Walks" by Hortense Calisher
"Some Nights When Nothing Happens Are the Best Nights in this Place" by John McNulty
"Slight Rebellion off Madison" by J. D. Salinger
"Brownstone" by Renata Adler
"Partners" by Veronica Geng
"The Evolution of Knowledge" by Niccolo Tucci
"The Way We Live Now" by Susan Sontag
"Do the Windows Open?" by Julie Hecht
"The Mentocrats" by Edward Newhouse
"The Treatment" by Daniel Menaker
"Arrangement in Black and White" by Dorothy Parker
"Carlyle Tries Polygamy" by William Melvin Kelley
"Children Are Bored on Sunday" by Jean Stafford
"Notes from a Bottle" by James Stevenson
"Man in the Middle of the Ocean" by Daniel Fuchs
"Me Spoulets of the Splendide" by Ludwig Bemelmans
"Over by the River" by William Maxwell
"Baster" by Jeffrey Eugenides
"The Second Tree from the Corner" by E. B. White
"Rembrandt’s Hat" by Bernard Malamud
"Shot: A New York Story" by Elizabeth Hardwick
"A Father-to-Be" by Saul Bellow
"Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer" by S. J. Perelman
"Water Child" by Edwidge Danticat
"The Smoker" by David Schickler
Reseñas de la Crítica
"Wonderfully rich and textured." (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"An anthology that makes] you remember why the magazine has long had a reputation for literary excellence." (Chicago Tribune)
"Smart, well-written, and emotionally resonant, while possessing a high entertainment value." (The Plain Dealer (Cleveland))
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Perceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White's stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America's foremost literary figures. The New York Times named Here Is New York one of the 10 best books ever written about the metropolis, and The New Yorker called it "the wittiest essay, and one of the most perceptive, ever done on the city".
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Old New York
- De Joseph Paul Gouverneur en 07-24-16
De: E. B. White
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The James Thurber Audio Collection
- Fables and Selected Stories by James Thurber
- De: James Thurber
- Narrado por: Keith Olbermann
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"My father was in the hospital and every night when I visited him, I read aloud to him. James Thurber. And one night he said, 'You really should do that on your show,' and I said, 'Dad, it’s a television newscast. I’d love to, but how could it possibly fit?' And he said, 'How often have I ever suggested anything for your shows?' And I remembered that he never had. But I also reminded him that there were things like copyrights and bills, to which he said, 'Try it. You never know.'"
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James Thurber and Keith Olbermann? Wonderful!!!
- De Kristi R. en 11-30-11
De: James Thurber
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E. B. White on Dogs
- De: E. B. White
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
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In E. B. White on Dogs, his granddaughter and manager of his literary estate, Martha White, has compiled the best and funniest of her grandfather's essays, poems, and letters depicting over a dozen of his various canine companions. Included here are favorite essays such as "Two Letters, Both Open", "Bedfellows", and many others, as well as some of White's little-known notes and comment pieces covering dog shows, sled dog races, and the trials and tribulations of city canines.
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A delightful book!
- De Andi en 09-27-20
De: E. B. White
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One Man's Meat
- De: E. B. White
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
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Too personal for an almanac, too sophisticated for a domestic history, and too funny and self-doubting for a literary journal, One Man's Meat can best be described as a primer of a countryman's lessons and a timeless recounting of experience that will never go out of style.
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A must ...
- De JLI en 12-14-20
De: E. B. White
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The John Cheever Audio Collection (Unabridged Stories)
- De: John Cheever
- Narrado por: Meryl Streep, George Plimpton, others
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Here is the preface to 12 magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates - with unequaled grace and tenderness - the deepest feelings we have.
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A mere fraction
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Lenin's Tomb
- The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
- De: David Remnick
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
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In the tradition of John Reed's classic Ten Days That Shook the World, this best-selling account of the collapse of the Soviet Union combines the global vision of the best historical scholarship with the immediacy of eyewitness journalism.
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The moral complexity of a comic book
- De Tot en 02-22-19
De: David Remnick
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens
- De: A. N. Wilson
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
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Filled with the twists, pathos, and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist’s extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer’s death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, he seeks to understand Dickens’ creative genius and enduring popularity. Following his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens’ fiction drew from his life - a fact he acknowledged.
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One thesis, repeated
- De Marina en 01-31-21
De: A. N. Wilson
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Wonderful Town
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- Alison
- 09-08-04
Great stories and readers, but technically sloppy
There are some fantastic stories in this selection, and I really love the way they span the decades from the early 1940s to the present day. New York itself is peripheral to some stories but central to others. The stories are often poignant and sometimes funny. The readers are excellent.
One thing that really irked me about the selection, though, is that between stories there is no pause. As soon as the last word of a story is spoken, they are introducing the next one. It happens before I can grab my player and hit pause so that I can savor what I've just heard.
Also, although the book is divided into two parts, there are no electronic stops in between. If you lose your place, it's very hard to scroll through all of that stuff to find where you left off. This is a general criticism of I have of many Audible books, but in this one it's particularly bad because there are so many obivous places that pauses could have been inserted.
Nevertheless, I highly recommend this selection.
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- Howard B Goldstein MD
- 12-22-13
Wonderful stories from the NewYorker
Would you listen to Wonderful Town again? Why?
the stories are brilliantly crafted and so well read
What did you like best about this story?
the variety of story types
Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favorite?
not applicable to a group of short stories
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
a range of emotions from joy to deep quiet reflection
Any additional comments?
I would have liked to have even more stories included in this recording
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- Jane
- 05-22-15
A wonderful assortment
Laugh. Cry. Love. You will be intrigued and uplifted by the collection of brilliant stories contained in this well curated and performed collection. A chocolate box.
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- C.Z.S.
- 06-18-21
Excellent!
These well crafted stories are a time capsule and a wonderful textured anthology. If you love short fiction, and/or love New York City, this is the book for you. (I listened to it on a long drive and it was a delightful companion on the road.) If you're a reader, you may have already read some of these stories, but they're great to revisit.
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- DJ
- 04-20-23
Some Great Stories, but a Bit Uneven
This collection of stories from the New Yorker, covering the period from the 1940s through the 1990s, is a solid read (and an excellent listen), but it's a bit uneven. Some of the stories (such as Dorothy Parker's "Arrangement in Black and White") seem rather dated. Still, the collection introduced me to writers I did not know previously, such as Hortense Calisher and her excellent "In Greenwich, There Are Many Gravelled Walks."
The performances are excellent across the board.
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- Stephanie Laffont
- 10-24-23
The Susan Sontag is the best
Glad I read it . I don’t think I would have , we’re it not for this collection.
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- Dylan W.
- 05-22-05
Only mildly interesting ...
After almost every story, I had the same thought: why was this story even accepted for publication? The stories are, for the most part, about mildly interesting people in in mildly interesting situations. The story about the pregnant woman is a perfect example - woman is a few weeks from giving birth, woman has minor birthing complications in the hospital, baby is born fine, end of story. Nothing particularly gripping, nothing particularly insightful. So it goes, for the most part, with this entire collection.
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