That would probably be Janet Groth's memoir, The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker. The title pretty much says it all, but Groth encountered some pretty fascinating people during her tenure at the mag, including E.B. White, Charles Addams and Joseph Mitchell/5(97). · Well before she became a teacher and biographer, Groth (English Emeritus/SUNY-Plattsburgh; Edmund Wilson: A Critic for Our Time, , etc.) spent 21 years (–) behind the front desk at the New Yorker, taking messages, calming suspicious wives, babysitting and refusing John Berryman's marriage proposals. The starry-eyed daughter of an alcoholic Iowa grocer, she arrived in ISBN The Receptionist: Book summary and reviews of The Receptionist by Janet Groth. Summary | Reviews | More Information | More Books. The Receptionist. An Education at The New Yorker. by Janet Groth. X. Critics' Opinion: Readers' rating: Not Yet Rated. Published in USA Jun pages Genre: Biography/Memoir Publication Information. Rate this.
Janet Groth went to work at The New Yorker in , when she was 19, and stayed until As it happens—Groth makes it clear in her memoir, The Receptionist: An Education At The New Yorker. The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker - Kindle edition by Groth, Janet. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker. The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker [Groth, Janet, West, Judith] on www.doorway.ru *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker.
It was a sort of awakening--professionally, sexually, and intellectually--from her Midwestern roots. She took one class a semester at NYU until she earned her PhD, but she didn't really expound on that. Upon leaving "The New Yorker," she went on to teach, but she glossed over that part of her life. She has time to read modern classics as she sits idling behind the receptionist's desk, and this leads to completing a PhD in 20th century British and American literature at NYU, all while working at the magazine. Her life as a female in the 's and '70's is what this book is all about. Janet Groth, Emeritus Professor of English at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, has also taught at Vassar, Brooklyn College, the University of Cincinnati, and Columbia. She was a Fulbright lecturer in Norway and a visiting fellow at Yale and is the author of Edmund Wilson: A Critic for Our Time (for which she won the NEMLA Book.
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