Janet Groth
In 1957, when a young Midwestern woman landed a job at The New Yorker, she didnâ€™t expect to stay long at the reception desk. But stay she did, and for twenty-one years she had the best seat in the house. In addition to taking messages, she ran interference for jealous wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers at famous watering holes throughout bohemian Greenwich Village, and was seduced, two-timed, and proposed to by a few of the magazineâ€™s eccentric luminaries. This memoir of a particular time and place is an enchanting tale of a woman in search of herself.
Nonfiction,Autobiography,Memoir,Biography,New York,Biography Memoir,History,Biography,Autobiography,Adult,Unfinished,Language,Writing
The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker