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Thanks to a successful interview with a painfully shy E. B. White, a beautiful nineteen-year-old hazel-eyed Midwesterner landed a job as receptionist at The New Yorker . There she stayed for two decades, becoming the general office factotum—watching and registering the comings and goings,... read more
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Setting & Locations edit
- New Yorker
- Europe
- Iowa
- Greece
- Minnesota
- Germany
- London
- California
- Arezzo
- America
- Manhattan
- Hydra
- Piraeus
- Connecticut
- Austin
First Sentence edit
It all happened by the merest chance.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction; or Jack Spills the Beans
1. Homage to Mr. Berryman
2. On Writing, Not Writing, and Lunching with Joe
3. Remembering Muriel
4. Rough Passage through the New Yorker Art Department
5. Party Girl
6. Back on Reception
7. Fritz
8. Intermezzo
9. Fritz: The Denouement
10. A World Awry
11. A New Roommate
12. Greece: The Journey Out
13. Greece: The Journey In
14. Changing
15. A Renaissance Man
16. Mr. Right at Last
17. What the Receptionist Received
Authors & Contributors edit
- Janet Groth (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 1616201312
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 1616201312
Page Count: 320
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