{"product_id":"op-wayward-reporter-paperback","title":"OP: Wayward Reporter (paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCreative Arts Book Company, Publisher, San Francisco, 1984. Paperback. Near Fine.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbbot Joseph Liebling (1904–1963), a long-time staffer at \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, is regarded by many as one of the finest journalistic stylists of his time. He wrote about everything in the world that caught his attention: boxing (the only regular columnist the magazine ever had on that subject), politics, and the triumphs and foibles of the press. And as \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e’s war correspondent, he covered the Normandy Invasion in 1944. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut what A.J. Liebling wrote about most enthusiastically was the world of food. In Paris as a young man, he discovered the joys of good eating, which he documented memorably in one of our shop’s all-time best-selling books, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.kitchenartsandletters.com\/products\/between-meals-an-appetite-for-paris-p?srsltid=AfmBOopUc4Ty7e8XjRxxrqOUiNPp4B-xd2jWTYEKVtLFB02FgW4UaJid\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBetween Meals\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (1962—and still in print). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is fitting, therefore, that a biography of Liebling should have been written by Raymond Sokolov, an accomplished journalist himself and former restaurant critic for \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e. This is a lively, richly anecdotal book about a colorful character, who ate and drank on an almost superhuman scale—not as a glutton nor, on the other hand, as an over-refined aesthete. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiebling knew about food and wine and appreciated both as others might enjoy old movies or relish dressing up and going dancing. Sokolov captures him appealingly and serves us a host of his better lines, noting that when in Normandy, Liebling encountered a partridge dish that he said, “tasted as if the partridge had been fed all its life from a bottle of Calvados fifty years old.” This book is a treat—and was one of store founder Nach Waxman’s personal favorites.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOurs is a Near Fine paperback copy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"KNOP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41302960799877,"sku":"Raymond Sokolov","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0297\/5046\/0549\/files\/sokolov_wayward_reporter2.jpg?v=1754504782","url":"https:\/\/www.kitchenartsandletters.com\/products\/op-wayward-reporter-paperback","provider":"Kitchen Arts \u0026 Letters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}