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A.J. Liebling's Delectable Political Jambalaya
The Washington Post; 1/20/2004; 1717 words
; ... Turn to the opening sentences of A.J. Liebling's "The Earl of Louisiana," and ... Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling" (1980). He had two unhappy marriages ... typewriter of the one and only A.J. Liebling. He was neither the first nor the ...
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A.J. Liebling: the standard-bearer. ('63).(Brief Article)
Columbia Journalism Review; 11/1/2001; 326 words
; A.J. Liebling, who died in 1963, was a polymath who wrote ... press criticism. A man of routine, Liebling rose each morning at 9:00 to find a thick stack of ... distinguished as a class for large ... bitterness. Remarked Liebling shortly before ...
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Liebling meets his match: Evan Cornog on the Earl of Louisiana, a tribute to the city of New Orleans.(A.J. Liebling)(Critical Essay)
Columbia Journalism Review; 11/1/2005; Cornog, Evan; 2212 words
; ... Pierce Long. Thus begins A.J. Liebling's profile of Huey Long ... 1960 and was published as a book the following year ... cultures of Louisiana, Liebling found a setting perfect for his ... northern Louisiana, where Liebling and a companion decide to head ...
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And in This Corner, A.J. Liebling
The Washington Post; 10/21/1990; Arthur Krystal; 1059 words
; A NEUTRAL CORNER By A.J. Liebling Edited by Fred Warner and ... things he was perhaps not a very important writer ... everyone, it must be said, is a Liebling fan. Given the racially ... Language Association. WAS LIEBLING a writer without flaws? Of ...
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The anti-profiler: the verbal burlesque of A. J. Liebling.(Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer)(Book Review)
Harper's Magazine; 12/1/2004; Siegel, Lee; 3031 words
; ... Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work ... 27.50. As a war correspondent ... Second World War, A. J. Liebling once found himself ... to America in a Norwegian merchant ... possibility of death, Liebling paints a picture of childhood ... Just Enough Liebling--a selection ...
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A.J. Liebling, a writist at work: old days at The New Yorker.
American Scholar; 1/1/1998; Pinck, Dan; 9612 words
; ... weighty stuff. Gossip, I said. News that isn't news, he said. A millibar higher than gossip ... 's necessary. And I'd like a stack of The Daily Workers ... comparisons. I asked Mr. Liebling for a sheet or two of the yellow ... makes some notes. He gave me a few sheets. I wrote my ...
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A. J. Liebling goes to war
The Boston Globe; 3/23/2008; Katherine A.Powers Powers; 888 words
; A Reading Life A.J. Liebling is best known ... been having a fit of prosperity ... good time." Liebling, who had spent ... America's "A.J. Liebling: World War II ... version and he saw a good deal of ... had made this a wide-ranging Liebling volume, ...
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A.J. Liebling was one of thos ...
The Washington Post; 9/12/2004; A. J. Liebling; 364 words
; A.J. Liebling was one of those writers ... New Yorker is still a fine magazine, it can ... demonstrate what made him a writers' writer. Some of Liebling's faithful readers ... Huey Pierce Long." A little later, Liebling describes a political maneuver ...
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work of a.J. Liebling stands the test of time.(Daily Break)
The Virginian Pilot; 6/22/2008; 285 words
; ... journalists than A.J. Liebling, but I haven't ... embodied humor and a sublimated passion ... was cooking up a large number of ... overjoyed to see Liebling's work enshrined ... report from Paris a month or two after ... returning to normal. Liebling was a man whose best ...
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On Learning to Eat excerpted from Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (C 1959,1986 by A.J. Liebling. Published by North Point Press and Reprinted by permission)
The Washington Post; 3/8/1987; A.J. Liebling; 1474 words
; ... spring chicken, and baby lobster, is a pale preliminary phase of its species ... grow muscular through overactivity . . . A drastically poor man, naturally, has even less chance than a drastically rich one to educate himself ... gastronomically. For him eating becomes merely a matter of subsistence; ...
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