REPORTING AT WIT’S END

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The pieces in this collection were originally published, sometimes in somewhat different form, in The New Yorker, and in the books Gossip:
The Life and Times of Walter Winchell, True Tales from the Annals of Crime and Rascality, The Edinburgh Caper, and The Big Little Man from Brooklyn.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McKelway, St. Clair.

Reporting at wit’s end : tales from the New Yorker / St. Clair McKelway; introduction by Adam Gopnik.—1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-1-60819-123-9

I. Gopnik, Adam. II. New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) III. Title.

PS3525.C54R48 2010

814'.52—dc22

2009028891

First U.S. Edition 2010

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Typeset by Westchester Book Group
Printed in the United States of America by Worldcolor Fairfield