Maeve Brennan

A collection of the author's pieces written for "The Talk of the Town" column of The New Yorker between 1953 and 1968 presents snapshots of life in New York City

Notes from The New Yorker

The Long-winded Lady

Nikki Cannon

From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for 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 small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Times Square and the Village—together form a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she called the "most reckless, most ambitious, most confused, most comical, the saddest and coldest and most human of cities." First published in 1969, The Long–Winded Lady is a celebration of one of The New Yorker's finest writers.

The Long-winded Lady Notes from The New Yorker

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