num_pages: 268
description: 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 . . . the saddest and coldest and most human of cities."
language: English
title: The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker
titlecomplete: The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker
genres: New York, Ireland, Irish Literature, History, Short Stories, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction, Memoir, Essays, Journalism
ratings_count: 662
publisher: Mariner Books