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

Rating:
Summary: Good read!
Review: A well-organized personal romp through years with the NYer, and interesting side- trips along the way. Perhaps not as palatable as other books connected to the New Yorker's history and legacy, but a good read for those of us who can't get enough.

Rating:
Summary: Overpriced and overwritten
Review: I'm a great fan of the (old pre-Tina) New Yorker and was really looking forward to this book. It seems to be a selection of the author's worst pieces in the last 60 years. Not up to the old New Yorker standards at all. Not to mention being a bit trendy-lefty (the pieces on the Kennedy an Reagan inaugurals blast any hope of objectivity, and the Clinton election piece is nauseating). Also the type is too large and there is far too much white space, just padding out the length of this thing. Pass, buy Thurber's Years With Ross instead.