Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker

“The book is notable . . . for Bourke’s first-rate descriptions and analyses of Brennan’s fiction. An impressive portrait.” —Kirkus Reviews

To be a staff writer at The New Yorker during its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s was to occupy one of the most coveted—and influential—seats in American culture. Witty, beautiful, and Irish–born Maeve Brennan was lured to such a position in 1948 and proceeded to dazzle everyone who met her, both in person and on the page. From 1954 to 1981 under the pseud...