<div>Humorous essays by the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning &ldquo;supreme satirist&rdquo; (The Washington Post Book World). This collection of more than a hundred anecdotes and essays from the legendary journalist, New York Times columnist, and author of the bestselling memoir Growing Up offers wise and sharply witty reflections on an extraordinary array of topics, ranging from youth, wealth, the media, and the joy of anger to the difference between &ldquo;dinner&rdquo; and &ldquo;supper.&rdquo; &ldquo;Russell Baker is the Alka-Seltzer of the American experience. . . . The most effective comic relief available for the agonizing absurdities we encounter every day.&rdquo; &mdash;Houston Chronicle &ldquo;When it comes to satire of a controlled but effervescent ferocity, nobody can touch Baker.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post Book World</div>

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The Rescue of Miss Yaskell and Other Pipe Dreams

<div>A &ldquo;superb [and] often hilarious&rdquo; memoir of a life in journalism, from the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning author of Growing Up (The New York Times Book Review). &ldquo;Baker here recalls his years at the Baltimore Sun, where, on &lsquo;starvation wages,&rsquo; he worked on the police beat, as a rewrite man, feature writer and White House correspondent. Sent to London in 1953 to report on the coronation, he spent the happiest year of his life there as an innocent abroad. Moving to the New York Times and becoming a &lsquo;two-fisted drinker,&rsquo; he covered the Senate and the national political campaigns of 1956 and 1960, and, just as he was becoming bored with routine reporting and the obligation to keep judgments out of his stories, was offered the opportunity to write his own op-ed page column, &lsquo;The Observer.&rsquo; With its lively stories about journalists, Washington politicians and topical scandals, the book will delight Baker&rsquo;s devotees&mdash;and significantly expand their already vast number.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Aspiring writers will chuckle over Baker&rsquo;s first, horrible day on police beat, his panicked interview with Evelyn Waugh, and his arrival at Queen Elizabeth&rsquo;s coronation in top hat, tails, and brown-bag lunch.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;A wonderful book.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

The Good Times

<div>The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank McCourt, Annie Dillard, and many more. For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs&mdash;or is thinking about writing one&mdash;this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors: Russell Baker, Jill Ker Conway, Annie Dillard, Ian Frazier, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alfred Kazin, Frank McCourt, Toni Morrison, and Eileen Simpson. &ldquo;Annie Dillard talks of her Pittsburgh childhood and her moment of waking to the world outside. Russell Baker explains why his first draft of Growing Up was so bad that he had to start over again. Alfred Kazin finds that writing about his Brooklyn childhood connected him with the great tradition of Emerson and Whitman. Toni Morrison tells why her fiction uses not only family history but the slave narratives of her people. Lewis Thomas traces the evolution of his singular self from primeval bacteria to contemporary scientist whose drive to be useful is the most fundamental of all biological necessities. . . . Delightful and instructive.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal </div>

Inventing the Truth

<div>The Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning memoir about coming of age in America between the world wars: &ldquo;So warm, so likable and so disarmingly funny&rdquo; (The New York Times). One of the New York Times&rsquo; &ldquo;50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years&rdquo; Ranging from the backwoods of Virginia to a New Jersey commuter town to the city of Baltimore, this remarkable memoir recounts Russell Baker&rsquo;s experience of growing up in pre&ndash;World War II America, before he went on to a celebrated career in journalism. With poignant, humorous tales of powerful love, awkward sex, and courage in the face of adversity, Baker reveals how he helped his mother and family through the Great Depression by delivering papers and hustling subscriptions to the Saturday Evening Post&mdash;a job which introduced him to bullies, mentors, and heroes who endured this national disaster with hard work and good cheer. Called &ldquo;a treasure&rdquo; by Anne Tyler and &ldquo;a blessing&rdquo; by Time magazine, this autobiography is a modern-day classic&mdash;&ldquo;a wondrous book [with scenes] as funny and touching as Mark Twain&rsquo;s&rdquo; (Los Angeles Times Book Review). &ldquo;In lovely, haunting prose, he has told a story that is deeply in the American grain.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post Book World &ldquo;A terrific book.&rdquo; &mdash;St. Louis Post-Dispatch</div>

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The Rescue of Miss Yaskell and Other Pipe Dreams

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