THE RECEPTIONIST: AN EDUCATION AT THE NEW YORKER
Book ID/图书代码： 00342511B51448
English Summary/英文概要： Thanks to a successful interview with a painfully shy E. B. White, a beautiful ninteen-year-old hazel-eyed Midwesterner landed a job as a receptionist at The New Yorker. There she stayed for two decades, becoming the general office factotum-watching and registering the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous affairs, failures, triumphs, and tragedies of the eccentric inhabitants of the eighteenth floor. In addition to taking their messages, Groth watered their plants, walked their dogs, boarded their cats, and sat their children (and houses) when they traveled. And although she dreamed of becoming a writer herself, she never advanced at the magazine.
This memoir of a particular time and place is as much about why that was so as it is about Groth’s fascinating relationships with poet John Berryman (who proposed marriage), essayist Joseph Mitchell (who took her to lunch every Friday), and playwright Muriel Spark (who invited her to Christmas dinner in Tuscany), as well as E. J. Kahn, Calvin Trillin, Renata Adler, Peter DeVries, Charles Addams, and many other New Yorker contributors and bohemian denizens of Greenwich Village in it heyday.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在紐約以外，全球也擁有廣大讀者群的《紐約客The New Yorker》雜誌，它是一份知識與文藝兼併的綜合類雜誌，內容含蓋時事新聞、文藝評論、散文、小說以及紐約文化等生活動向。這一份富有傳奇色彩的出版業，如今一位現年75歲的大學教授Janet Groth撰寫的回憶錄，帶領讀者一窺這神秘的出版行業。
當很多人都以為Janet Groth之前是《紐約客》的專欄作家或編輯，但其實她以前只是18樓的櫃台接待員和總機小姐。Janet Groth從大學畢業後就來到紐約，立志成為作家。在通過面試後，她在《紐約客》的美編部門待了一段時間，發現自己不開心也不適任，因為她常常要回覆拒絕別人的來信投稿，而後來她竟在櫃台接待的職務非常上手。
當上《紐約客》的接待員，沒想到隨之而來的收穫和見聞卻意外的豐富，她曾幫迷失方向的伍迪·艾倫指路，回過信給大作家《麥田捕手》一書作者J. D. 沙林傑，幫許多名人或大牌編輯澆花、溜狗、帶小孩，和《紐約客》的許多作者變成好朋友。
在她的回憶錄中，分享《紐約客》其間奇特的職業生涯、背後的故事、感情路上的失落和辛酸、還有紐約客裡鮮為人知的秘辛。雖然當時她沒有成為作家，但之後發表文章、有自己的作品、與人一同出書，她簡練優雅的文筆證明她的寫作天賦。本書讓人得以一窺這神秘的出版行業，同時這部作品也是她身為當時女性，發現自我心路歷程的動人回憶。
Awards/获奖情况："Revelatory... deeply reflective... Groth chronicles the many dazzling personalities whose lives touched, and moved, hers." (Publishers Weekly)"
About the Author/作者介绍： Janet Groth, Emeritus Professor of English at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, has also taught at Vassar, Brooklyn College, the University of Cincinnati, and Columbia. She was a Fulbright lecturer in Norway and a Visiting Fellow at Yale and is the author of Edmond Wilson: A Critic for Our Time (for which she won the NEMLA Book Award) and co-author (with David Castronovo) of Critic in Love: A Romantic Biography of Edmund Wilson. She lives in New York City.
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