NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime…

In a delightful bestseller full of the lore of New York, Murray Tepper regularly parks in Manhattan and reads his paper. Not surprisingly, his reading is often interrupted by people…

Calvin Trillin begins his wise and charming ruminations on family by stating the sum total of his child-rearing advice: Try to get one that doesn’t spit up. Otherwise, you’re on…

"A remarkable, vivid, and meticulously researched story about an unjustly forgotten major figure of the nineteenth century." - Nicholas B. Lemann

"It's more than a bio. It's a way to…