{"product_id":"the-lede-dispatches-from-a-life-in-the-press","title":"The Lede","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \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\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN\/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD\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\u003ecovered the civil rights movement in the South for \u003ci\u003eTime, \u003c\/i\u003eand 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 the media world that is their orbit. He writes about a legendary crime reporter in Miami, a swashbuckling \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ereporter, and an erudite film critic in Dallas who once a week transformed himself from an appreciator of the French nouvelle vague into a crude connoisseur of movies like \u003ci\u003eMother Riley Meets the Vampire\u003c\/i\u003e. There are pieces on the House of Lords aspirations of a North American press baron, the paucity of gossip columns in Russia, the embroilment of a weekly newspaper in a missing person case, and the founding 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\u003eis an unparalleled portrait of one of our fundamental American institutions from a master journalist.","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661044384034,"sku":"9780593596463","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_13d55f1d-ed22-4346-ace9-efd4f9115da0.jpg?v=1779449095","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/the-lede-dispatches-from-a-life-in-the-press","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}