The Devil Problem
by David Remnick | 
Living Out Loud
by Anna Quindlen | 
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
by Joan Didion | 
Giving Good Weight
by John McPhee |
Just Enough Liebling
by A. J. Liebling | 
After Henry
by Joan Didion |
Reporting at Wit's End
by St. Clair McKelway |
The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup
by Susan Orlean | 
Broken Vessels
by Andre Dubus | 
Feel Free
by Zadie Smith |
Reporting
by David Remnick | 
In Praise of Messy Lives
by Katie Roiphe | 
Farther Away
by Jonathan Franzen | 
Both Flesh and Not
by David Foster Wallace | 
Vintage Didion
by Joan Didion |
From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan contributed to "The New Yorker's" "Talk of the Town" department under the pen name "the long-winded lady." Her unforgettable sketches--prose snapshots of life in the streets, diners, and cheap hotels just off Times Square--are a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she calls the "most ambitious, most comical...saddest and coldest and most human of cities."