The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker

“Maeve Brennan . . . helped put New York back into The New Yorker, and has written about the city of the sixties with both honesty and affection . . . She is constantly alert, sharp-eyed as a sparrow for the crumbs of human event, the overheard and the glimpsed and the guessed at, that form a solitary city person’s least expensive amusement.” —John Updike, author of Rabbit, Run

From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker under the pen name "The Long–Winded Lady." Her unforgetta...