Friends Talking in the Night: Sixty Years of Writing for the New Yorker - Hardcover

A popular contributor to The New Yorker presents a diverse collection of his many years worth of pieces that serves both as a memoir of the man himself and a valuable record of the world he experienced.

r of astonishing versatility, this wonderfully rich collection of pieces is both a memoir  of Philip Hamburger's writing life and a vivid and various record of the world he has lived in. Hamburger first went to work for The New Yorker in 1939, under the aegis of Harold Ross, and he is  still there--six decades and four editors later. He has wandered all over its pages as Our Man Stanley or Reporter at Large, doing Talk of the Town, Casuals, and Notes & Comment, writing Profiles, and more.   And he has wandered all over the map, unearthing the secret souls of some fifty-five American towns  and cities (from Hot Springs, Arkansas, to Butte, Montana) and bearing witness to the horrors of war  and fascism (from Mussolini's bloody corpse hanging upside down in a Milan public square, to the  hungry, hollow-eyed marchers bearing pro-Tito posters through the wrecked streets of Belgrade  after the war).
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