The Years with RossAt the helm of America's most influential literary magazine for more than half a century, Harold Ross introduced the country to a host of exciting talent, including Robert Benchley, Alexander Woolcott, Ogden Nash, Peter Arno, Charles Addams, and Dorothy Parker. But no one could have written about this irascible, eccentric genius more affectionately or more critically than James Thurber -- an American icon in his own right -- whose portrait of Ross captures not only a complex literary giant but a historic friendship and a glorious era as well. "If you get Ross down on paper," warned Wolcott Gibbs to Thurber," nobody will ever believe it." But readers of this unforgettable memoir will find that they do. |
Contents
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Every Tuesday Afternoon | 36 |
Mencken and Nathan and Ross | 62 |
The Talk of the Town | 76 |
Miracle Men | 100 |
More Miracle Men | 121 |
Onward and Upward and Outward | 136 |
Who Was Harold What Was He? | 171 |
Up Popped the Devil | 180 |
The Dough and the System | 194 |
The Secret Life of Harold Winney | 212 |
Writers Artists Poets and Such | 223 |
Dishonest Abe and the Grand Marshal | 242 |
The Last Years | 259 |
Sex Is an Incident | 155 |
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