Liebling Abroad

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Contents: The road back to Paris. Mollie & other war pieces. Normandy revisited. Between mealsFor forty years Liebling’s ironic, biting wit and his perceptive, very personal point of view appeared in articles in The New Yorker and other publications. A reporter’s reporter, Liebling was obsessed by and fiercely critical of the press he loved. His “Wayward Press” columns in The New Yorker established him as the pioneering critic of American journalism and the profession’s patron saint. His interests, however, were not restricted to journalism—he wrote on such farflung subjects as boxing, gastronomy, the European theater of World War II, and the street life of dollar hustlers on Broadway. In his classics of war reporting, The Road Back to Paris and Mollie & Other War Pieces, Liebling used his experiences to draw the reader into the pace of battle, to make him feel the sudden blasting of dreary days into the frenzy of war. Normandy Revisited is Liebling’s moving exploration of the past, his account of the people and things he rediscovered and the memories that came to mind when he returned to the site of his days with the troops. Between Meals, a brilliant evocation of the pleasures of life, presents Liebling on the subjects dearest to his heart: food, wine, and women; food, wine, and racing; food, wine and boxing; food, wine, and Paris.