The Washington Post, September 12th, 2004
A.J. Liebling was one of those writers (others included E.B. White, James Thurber and Brendan Gill) whose sophistication, versatility, elegant prose style and fascination with virtually everything under the sun shaped the New Yorker magazine in its classic era. (Though the New Yorker is still a fine magazine, it can muster few such paragons now -- in much the same way that even the most glamorous of today's movie stars appear pale by comparison with their Golden Age forebears.) Just Enough Liebling (North Point, $27.50), an anthology with an introduction by David Remnick, the magazine's curren...
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