The Washington Post, January 11th, 1998
THE SPRINGS OF AFFECTION Stories of Dublin By Maeve Brennan Houghton Mifflin. 355 pp. $24 BEHIND the sexy Versace glitter, vermilion nail polish and jungle red lipstick of Tina Brown's New Yorker, there lurks the ghost of an earlier New Yorker -- hair caught up in a bun, Mongol pencil tucked into bun, sensible shoes, salt-and-pepper skirt from Peck and Peck. The ghost, cherishing a wry attitude toward experience, whispers phrases as it polishes and repolishes sentences for "The Talk of the Town." Occasionally it wanders the halls of the old New Yorker office, across Forty-third Street from the...
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