A. J. Liebling, Author Broadway Books $19 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7679-1736-0
In its homage to America's most rakish hucksters, Broadway's""Library of Larceny"" series reissues this collection of irreverent""low-life"" pieces penned by Liebling, a mid-century fixture at the New Yorker renowned for his intimacy with con...
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A. J. Liebling, Author, Roy Blount, jr., Photographer North Point Press $9.95 (148p) ISBN 978-0-86547-451-2
The title of this 1942 collection of Liebling's early New Yorker pieces refers to those lowlife entrepreneurs whose offices were the telephone booths of New York City, where they waited for associates to call them since they didn't even have a...
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A. J. Liebling, Author, David Remnick, Introduction by , intro. by David Remnick. FSG/North Point $27.50 (560p) ISBN 978-0-374-10443-6
As one of the first top New Yorker
writers in the 1930s and beyond, Liebling helped set the magazine's sophisticated, urbane tone, and his essays are crackling enough to remain unique decades later. The writer took on a range of subjects, from...
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A. J. Liebling, Author, Mark Singer, Foreword by, Garrison Keillor, Foreword by North Point Press $9.95 (159p) ISBN 978-0-86547-396-6
A welcome reminder of the multifaceted talents and fecund curiosity of the legendary New Yorker writer, this chronicles Liebling's fascination with the shenanigans of wayward septuagenarian horse-racing journalist James A. Macdonald, aka Col. John R.
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A. J. Liebling, Author, Fred Warner, Editor, James Barbour, Editor North Point Press $19.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-86547-450-5
Liebling (1904-1963) was an impeccable stylist, whether covering the vagaries of the American press, the glories of France or the simple pleasures of good food. He may have reserved his best literary efforts, however, for boxing, a contention borne...
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