unforgettable sketches?prose snapshots of life in small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Times Square and the Village?together form a timeless, bittersweet tribute to what she called the ?most reckless, most ambitious, most confused, most comical, the saddest and coldest and most human of cities.” First published in 1969, The Long-Winded Lady is a celebration of one of The New Yorker’s finest writers.

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