Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker by David Remnick. Hardcover​​​​

Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker by David Remnick • Hardcover • Random House; First Edition (January 11, 2000) • 544 Pages Condition: Excellent/ No Dust-Jacket —————————————————————— One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker magazine has met this challenge more often than any other modern American journal. Starting with its light fantastic evocations of the glamorous and the idiosyncratic in the twenties and continuing to the present, The New Yorker's Profiles have presented readers with a brilliant portrait gallery of our day and age. These literary-journalistic stories are unrivaled in their range, variety of style, and embrace of humanity. To help mark the occasion of The New Yorker's seventy-fifth anniversary, Life Stories puts into one volume, for the first time, some of the most outstanding examples of this exemplary tradition. When they were first published, these essential biographies brought insight, amusement, understanding, to those who read them. Gathered together here, in Life Stories, they provide us with an album of our era, a rich and diverse appraisal of some of the most prominent members of an entire century's cast.