The Washington Post, October 21st, 1990
A NEUTRAL CORNER By A.J. Liebling Edited by Fred Warner and James Barbour North Point Press. 245 pp. $18.95 HE WAS neither learned nor profound nor what the French might call engage', and in the great scheme of things he was perhaps not a very important writer, but as many readers of the New Yorker in the '40s and '50s might plead, Abbott Joseph Liebling was consistently the most entertaining nonfiction writer of his generation. He wrote about many things: the New York demimonde, the city of Chicago, Louisiana politics, the press, food, war and France. He wrote about them in an expansive, shre...
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