The Longwinded Lady
Notes from The New Yorker
by Maeve Brennan
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appears in About New York City, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
?Of all the incomparable stable of journalists who wrote for The New Yorker during its glory days in the Fifties and Sixties,? writes The Independent, ?the most distinctive was Irishborn Maeve Brennan.? From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker?s ?Talk of the Town? column under the pen name ?The LongWinded Lady.? Her unforgettable...
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appears in About New York City, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
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