{"product_id":"the-lede-dispatches-from-a-life-in-the-press","title":"The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ewriter Calvin Trillin\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Lede\u003c\/i\u003e contains profiles . . . that are acknowledged classics of the form and will be studied until A.I. makes hash out of all of us.\"--Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI've been writing about the press almost as long as I've been in the game. At some point, it occurred to me that disparate pieces from various places in various styles amounted to a picture from multiple angles of what the press has been like over the years since I became a practitioner and an observer.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCalvin Trillin has reported serious pieces across America for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, covered the civil rights movement in the South for \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, and written comic verse for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e. But one of his favorite subjects over the years--a superb fit for his unique combination of reportage and humor--has been his own professional environment: the American press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Lede\u003c\/i\u003e, Trillin gathers his incisive, often hilarious writing on reporting, reporters, and their world. There are pieces on a legendary crime reporter in Miami and on an erudite film critic in Dallas who once a week transformed himself from a connoisseur of the French nouvelle vague into a fan of movies like \u003ci\u003eMother Riley Meets the Vampire\u003c\/i\u003e. Trillin writes about the paucity of gossip columns in Russia, the icebreaker he'd use if he met one of his subjects socially (e.g.: \"You must be wondering why I referred to you in \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003eas a dork robot\"), and the origins of a publication called \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Spot: A Magazine of Parking.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUniting all of this is Trillin's signature combination of empathy, humor, and graceful prose. \u003ci\u003eThe Lede\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable portrait of one our fundamental American institutions from a master journalist.\r","brand":"Calvin Trillin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44440056037612,"sku":"9780593596449","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780593596449.jpg?v=1709486710","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/the-lede-dispatches-from-a-life-in-the-press","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}