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Jun 18, 2012 reading this book was like sitting next to groth in a smoky bar while she told you stories of when she worked at the new yorker for 21 years as a receptionist. Along with the regular office tasks, like taking messages, she interacted with. Judith west from 1957 to 1978, janet groth served as the receptionist for one of americas greatest publications, the new yorker. An education at the new yorker hardback common by author janet groth on. The receptionist book chicago public library bibliocommons. The receptionist is a dontmiss memoir of an era, a literary magazine and a fascinating woman. Janet groths typing skills werent up to par when the slim blonde moved from the midwest to manhattan in 1957, but she managed to land a receptionist job at the new yorker. Salinger, calvin trillin, and jamaica kincaid while dreaming of. A plum seat or not at the top of the literary world.

Thanks to a successful interview with a painfully shy e. White, a beautiful nineteenyearold hazeleyed midwesterner landed a job as receptionist at the new yorker. The new yorker recommends is where our critics, staff, and contributors share their enthusiasms. There she stayed for two decades, becoming the general office factotumwatching and registering the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous affairs, failures, triumphs, and tragedies of the eccentric inhabitants. Janet groths the receptionist is a tellall about her career at the new yorker. The author breezed by her academic accomplishments, yet dwelt on her failed sexual exploits.

The longtime new yorker receptionist has written a book. An education at the new yorker chronicles her 21 years behind a receptionists desk at americas most prestigious literary magazine. An education at the new yorker adobe epub ebook, kindle book, overdrive read. As it happensgroth makes it clear in her memoir, the receptionist. Groth was not a writer, editor or factchecker at the new yorker. Janet groth went to work at the new yorker in 1957, when she was 19, and stayed until 1978. Her desk sat in the very middle of new york literary life and yet her perspective is anything but your typical new yorker memoir. Talk story about luncheon given at toots shors for golf champion, ben hogan. The book seemed to be a slow selfdiscovery book and my expectation was a birds eye view of the new yorker.

Buy a cheap copy of the receptionist book by janet groth. An education at the new yorker from the worlds largest community of readers. Jun 26, 2012 as the receptionist, janet groth was both a veteran insider and a distinct outsider. We were in lincs car, an aging yellow mercedes sedan, big and steady, with slippery blond seats and a deep, strumming idle. The receptionist an education at the new yorker book. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel that. This is a cd audio book in overall good to very good used condition, except for the case. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with. She is now an edmund wilson scholar, with four books to her credit. But stay she did, and for twentyone years she had the best seat in the house. Do we really need another book about the new yorker. Janet groth describes the authors career as a receptionist at the prestigious new yorker magazine, recounting her relationships with famous poets, essayists, and playwrights, and chronicling the. Janet groth went to work at the new yorker in 1957, when she was 19, and. The title pretty much says it all, but groth encountered some pretty fascinating people.

The new yorker is an american magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new customers receive 15% off your. White, a beautiful, 19yearold, blueeyed blonde from the cornfields of iowa lands a job as a receptionist at the new yorker magazine. The new yorker was founded by harold ross and his wife jane grant, a new york times reporter, and debuted on february 21, 1925. Salinger, calvin trillin, and jamaica kincaid while dreaming of publishing her own stuff. A collection of articles about books from the new yorker, including news, indepth reporting, commentary, and analysis. One day in 1957, 19yearold janet groth applied for a job at the new yorker. Jun 24, 2012 janet groth had big plans when she came to the new yorker. Janet groth moved to the big apple from the midwest in the late 1950s and netted a job as a. As the receptionist, janet groth was both a veteran insider and a distinct outsider.

For 21 years, groth was gatekeeper to the literati hub, rubbing elbows with j. The receptionist is janet groths frank memoir of selfdiscovery, and it just happens to include some details about the new yorker. Jun 26, 2012 the receptionist is a dontmiss memoir of an era, a literary magazine and a fascinating woman. There she stays two decades, becoming general allaround factotumwatching and registering the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous affairs, failures, triumphs, and tragedies of. A graduate of the university of minnesota, she began as a receptionist at the magazine in 1957, after telling e.

The receptionist paperback an education at the new yorker. Reading this book was like sitting next to groth in a smoky bar while she told you stories of when she worked at the new yorker for 21 years as a receptionist. An education at the new yorker in new york journal of books. Janet groth describes her life at the new yorker the new york.

Janet groth moved to the big apple from the midwest in the late 1950s and netted a job as a receptionist at the. The title pretty much says it all, but groth encountered some pretty fascinating people during her tenure at the mag, including e. An education at the new yorker reprint by janet groth isbn. Ross wanted to create a sophisticated humor magazine that would be different from perceivably corny humor publications such as judge, where he had worked, or the old life.

In 1957, when a young midwestern woman landed a job at the new yorker, she didnt expect to stay long at the reception desk. Janet groth recalls the two decades she spent as a receptionist for the new yorker in this memoir that details the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous affairs, failures, triumphs, and tragedies of the eccentric inhabitants of the eighteenth floor. Started as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is now published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering twoweek spans. There she stays two decades, becoming general allaround factotum watching and registering the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous affairs, failures, triumphs, and tragedies of. Her book charts her delayed progress from wideeyed. Bookaudiobook cd janet groth memoir new yorker the. Jul 05, 20 the receptionist tells the dream story of becoming a new yorker at the new yorker. The receptionist new hampshire state library overdrive. Written in lean, graceful prose that offers ample evidence of her talent, the book is as much a window into the mythologized publication as it is a chronicle. Sep 04, 2012 janet groths the receptionist is a tellall about her career at the new yorker. Jun 28, 2012 though one might assume otherwise, ms. Groths curious, stillborn career at the magazine, and the reasons behind it, are the subject of her new memoir, the receptionist. It didnt help that i didnt recognize several of the authors janet groth did mention. The receptionist by janet groth leaves tales untold.

Revelatory dispatches from 21 years as a receptionist at the new yorker1957 to 1978expose more about groths edmund wilson own sense of writerly inadequacy in that prefeminist era than. Potential readers should adjust expectations accordingly. There she stays two decades, becoming general allaround factotum watching and registering the comings and goings, marriages and divorces. Thanks to a successful interview with the painfully shy e. If mad men were set at the offices of the new yorker magazine, and told from the point of view of the receptionist, it would mirror janet groths seductive and entertaining look back at her twentyone years 19571978 at that legendary institution. An education at the new yorker book online at best prices in india on. An education at the new yorker chronicles her 21 years behind a receptionist s desk at americas most prestigious literary magazine. White hired 19yearold janet groth, a doeeyed midwesterner, as the magazines receptionist. The receptionist janet groth 97816162019 netgalley. Janet groth had big plans when she came to the new yorker. In read, our writers recommend new and notable books, series, and essays. An education at the new yorker, that practically nothing she did in those two decades was plannedthis placed her at the magazine throughout the heart of william shawns long, legendary tenure as editor.

Janet groth writes of her 21 years at the magazine. In 1957, when a young midwestern woman landed a job at the new. The receptionist is sure to be touted as a book full of hot gossip. An education at the new yorker by janet groth with memoirs by accomplished writers like brendan gill, lillian ross and renata adler, and a host of shorter reminiscences by others associated with the publication, its not surprising that one might greet the arrival of yet another account of a stint at the new yorker with a. Revelatory dispatches from 21 years as a receptionist at the new yorker 1957 to 1978expose more about groths edmund wilson own sense of writerly inadequacy in that prefeminist era than about the famous writers she worked for. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives. So, one evening i joined her for a gin martini and just read.

Ted husing came in beforehand and told a golf anecdote to don ameche. During those singleinthecity years, groth tried on many identities, but eventually she would have to leave the new yorker to. For 21 years, from 1957 to 1978, she was the 18thfloor receptionist. Subtitled an education at the new yorker, and with a coverdesign reminding of a cover of the magazine, janet groths memoir, the receptionist, is certainly being marketed as an insiders look at the venerable magazine, where groth worked from 1957 to 1978. It begins with midwestern gal groth, a recent graduate of the university of minnesota, heading to the big. The receptionist tells the dream story of becoming a new yorker at the new yorker. In her years with the new yorker, she went, she saw, she conquered and was conquered the receptionist. That would probably be janet groths memoir, the receptionist. Janet groth describes her life at the new yorker the new. Jul 30, 2012 the receptionist is janet groths frank memoir of selfdiscovery, and it just happens to include some details about the new yorker.