{"product_id":"the-long-winded-lady-notes-from-the-new-yorker-9781619027114","title":"The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from the New Yorker","description":"From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e'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, \u003ci\u003eThe Long-Winded Lady\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of one of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's finest writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaeve Brennan\u003c\/b\u003e left Ireland for American in 1934, when she was seventeen. In 1949, she joined the staff of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, to which she contributed reviews, essays, and short stories. Her acclaimed works \u003ci\u003eThe Rose Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Visitor\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Springs of Affection\u003c\/i\u003e are also available from Counterpoint. Maeve Brennan died in 1993 at the age of seventy-six.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50623160877330,"sku":"9781619027114","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f6c3fca6-ac35-454b-bbcd-6f01e3d6fd21.jpg?v=1732593383","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-long-winded-lady-notes-from-the-new-yorker-9781619027114","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}