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Receptionist: An Education at the New Yorker | Janet Groth

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In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didn t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, and was seduced, two-timed, and proposed to by a few of the magazine s eccentric luminaries. This memoir of a particular time and place is an enchanting tale of a woman in search of herself."

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The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker | Janet Groth

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So bad. It slowly drips privilege page by page. I almost didn't finish it but held on and did because I couldn't believe what I was reading. Hypocrisy, privilege and a superficiality that I have rarely encountered. Not worth picking it up unless name dropping makes you all tingly or you want to read about a white, privileged, baby boomer woman writing all about herself over and over.

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The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker | Janet Groth

so-so

This book is mostly interesting if you are a long-time reader of The New Yorker, and have some knowledge of the NY intellectual scene. The last section of the book kind of veers into "Eat Pray Love" territory but the author is too prim and of an era to really get deep.

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