?Of all the incomparable stable of journalists who wrote for The New Yorker
during its glory days in the Fifties and Sixties," writes The Independent, ?the
most distinctive was Irish-born Maeve Brennan." From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan
wrote for The New Yorker's ?Talk of the Town" column under the pen name ?The
Long-Winded Lady." Her unforgettable sketches?prose snapshots of life in small
restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Times Square and the
Village?together form a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she called the
?most reckless, most ambitious, most confused, most comical, the saddest and
coldest and most human of cities."
First published in 1969, The