Receptionist: An Education at the New Yorker

Title: Receptionist: An Education at the New Yorker
Author: Janet Groth
ISBN: 9781616201319
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 320
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher Description:

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.