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"How come A. J. Liebling stay a captivating role model for authors as the superb, prolific St. Clair McKelway has been sorely ignored?" Wayne Wolcott asked this question in a recently available overview of The Complete New Yorker on Dvd and blu-ray. Anyone who has read a single paragraph of McKelway's work would battle to offer an answer. His articles for The New Yorker were defined by their clean words and incomporable wit, by his love of New York's tough ends and his love for the working man (whether that work was come across honestly or not). Like Joseph Mitchell and A. J. Liebling, McKelway merged the unflagging curiosity of your great reporter with the narrative flair of your professional storyteller. William Shawn, the magazine's long-time editor, referred to him as a article writer with the "lightest of light details". His style is so impressive, Shawn went on to state, that "it was too odd to be imitated". The pieces accumulated here are drawn from two of McKelway's literature - True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality (1951) and The Big Little Man from Brooklyn (1969). His themes will be the small players who in their particulars defined life in NY during the 36 years McKelway published: the junkmen, boxing cornermen, counterfeiters, con artists, fireplace marshals, priests, and combat cops and detectives. The "rascals". An amazing portrait of a long forgotten NY by the reporter who helped build and utterly defined New Yorker "fact writing", Reporting at Wit's End is a long overdue special event of a gifted writer.
