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A.J. Liebling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A.J. Liebling (October 18, 1904- December 28, 1963) was an American journalist who was closely associated with The New Yorker from 1935 until his death. Liebling was also an avid fan of boxing, horse racing and food, and frequently wrote about these subjects. A collection of his writing was published in 2004 as Just Enough Liebling (ISBN 0374104436). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A.J._Liebling   (1058 words)

Abbott Joseph Liebling Liebling was married to Jean Stafford, a poet. Liebling began his career in journalism in 1925 as a reporter for the Evening Bulletin of Providence, Rhode Island. Liebling's father was employed in New York City's fur district and his mother grew up in San Francisco. vikingphoenix.com /public/rongstad/news/bamr/aboutajl.htm   (362 words)

Abbott Joseph J. Liebling was “a chronicler of the prize ring,” a media critic of extraordinary wit, and biographer of diverse individuals for New Yorker magazine from 1935 until his death. Among his other published works are The Wayward Press (his first collection of articles in book form, 1948), Between Meals, The Most of A. Liebling, The Honest Rainmaker, Chicago—The Second City, The Telephone Booth Indian, The Earl of Louisiana, and The Jollity Building. at the New York Times, New York World Telegram, and Providence Journal, Liebling went to work at the New Yorker. www.jewishsports.net /BioPages/AbbottJoseph.htm   (312 words)

village voice > news > The Essay by Luc Sante Liebling also had an eye for the beauty of a con, and if this book has a hero, it is a man who, lying low somewhere, is present only in conversational reference: Maxwell C. Bimberg, a/k/a Count de Pennies (who according to Liebling's biographer, Raymond Sokolov, was actually a promoter named Samuel J. Burger). Abbott Joseph Liebling, known to one and all as Joe, was actually born in Manhattan, in 1904, but for him New York City and its inhabitants figured among a vast constellation of interests he returned to episodically over the course of his 30-odd-year career. A.J. Liebling died of multiple causes on December 28, 1963. www.villagevoice.com /issues/0420/essay.php   (1083 words)

Reviews Although the left-liberal Liebling wrote about subjects ranging from boxing to gastronomy, he is chiefly remembered as a critic of the press and a chronicler of low-lifers, con artists and grifters—folks, as they say, on the windy side of the law. A.J. Liebling spent the winter of 1949-1950 in Chicago gathering material for a feature on the Tribune for Collier’s magazine, which also wanted one on Time-Life; both to be unfriendly. He was a tremendous feeder and gourmet which may have killed him early, and his biography was written by Raymond Sokolov, a writer on food (Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling, New York, 1980). www.cercles.com /review/r18/liebling.htm   (1075 words)

The New Yorker: Fact Abbott Joseph Liebling was not born to the demimonde. Liebling joined Harold Ross’s New Yorker in 1935, when he was thirty. Liebling’s subjects in his maturity bloomed from the appetites and interests of his youth. www.newyorker.com /fact/content?040329fa_fact1   (4775 words)

Head Butler - Books Happily for Liebling, he had "just enough money" --- that is, he had to think hard whether to spend the six francs he had earmarked for dinner on a better wine and a lesser beef or settle for vin ordinaire and a "generous, sanguine contre-filet." This is, as any food-lover knows, not a small question. And on this subject, Liebling delivers one great scene after another. In 1926, A.J. Liebling had graduated from college and had bungled his first job as a reporter in Providence, Rhode Island. www.headbutler.com /books/between_meals.asp   (682 words)

Sean Stowell Liebling's writing can be rather cerebral, and not written at a grade school level like most journalism schools tell their charges to shoot for, but "The Sweet Science" is a true joy, written by a real master of his craft. Liebling felt that TV was the most ruinous to the sport. Liebling also brings the reader into how a writer covers the fights, giving a detailed account of his notes. www.maxboxing.com /Stowell/Stowell030705.asp   (852 words)

The New York Times > Books > Sunday Book Review > 'Just Enough Liebling': He Spread Himself Thick Liebling (the initials stood for Abbott Joseph) was born in 1904, the son of a prosperous furrier, and he grew up in Far Rockaway attended by various ''Fräuleins.'' (The difference between a Fräulein and nanny, he once explained, was that nannies ''siphon off. ''Just Enough Liebling'' is a title that Liebling himself would have scoffed at; he didn't believe in ''just enough'' anything, especially his own prose. And though Lemann is said to be an excellent cook, just from looking at him you know that he is hardly a trencherman of Lieblingesque appetite and amplitude. www.nytimes.com /2004/09/26/books/review/26MCGR01.html?ei=5090&en=0152ef97a44937e7&ex=1253851200&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=print&position=   (1490 words)

The Church of Liebling - The uncritical worshippers of America's best press critic. By Jack Shafer Liebling invented, almost from scratch, the journalistic genre of literary press critic, but because he wrote as well as he did, he seems to have closed the door on the way out. Liebling, of course, made no effort to hide his liberal politics, as biographer Raymond Sokolov writes in Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling, taking reliably liberal positions on unions, capitalism, the press barons, the Red Scare, and defending underdogs and proletarians. Liebling's press criticism benefited from the political polarity of the '40s and the '50s, when HUAC was in full swing, our allies the Soviets were becoming our enemy, and the New Deal had stumbled and was searching for its footing. www.slate.com /id/2105627   (1963 words)

Book Review: The Sweet Science, by A.J. Liebling Liebling also had an uncanny knack of providing, and invoking humor and humanity in the characters he was covering. As well, you’ll quickly notice that Liebling was a very erudite man. Many, many times he’ll amaze you by providing terms that are unequivocal in their defining purpose, and only with the assistance of Merriam–Webster will you be able to fully appreciate them. One of the most obvious and discernible traits that Liebling displayed was his ability to re-create the current times and atmosphere he was writing about. www.doghouseboxing.com /Chhim/Chhim010805.htm   (547 words)

Merriam-Webster Online A.J. Liebling's use of language was impressive; dictionary editors chose quotations from that writer to illustrate more than eight dozen different word entries in the big Webster's Third International Dictionary, Unabridged. A.J. Liebling carefully distinguished between the words function and role in offering at least a partial explanation: "The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money." After the war, A.J. Liebling returned stateside and trained his sharp eye on the press. www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/wftwarch.pl?101804   (229 words)

An appetite for A.J. Liebling - megnut.com A few New Yorkers ago, David Remnick wrote a retrospective on the author A.J. Liebling, A. Liebling's writing appeared in the magazine long before I was even born, and I wasn't aware of him. Liebling puts it, I've begun my apprenticeship as a feeder, and I hope to be able to share more of the culinary experiences on this site. www.megnut.com /2004/05/an-appetite-for-aj-liebling   (607 words)

Earl of Louisiana Liebling wades through the bizarre political culture of Louisiana, setting his penetrating eye on all manner of rallies, dinners and barroom jaunts where politics are discussed and dissected. Liebling came to Louisiana curious about Earl Long- and left a grudging admirer of a man who could attack the rich while thinning out their wallets, condemn black people while giving them more state jobs, and rave like a lunatic while practicing shrewd, realistic political artistry. A.J. Liebling has insights into politics like very few other journalists-- and all of his keen observations are on parade in this landmark book. michaelsims.net /baseball/isbn0807102032.html   (551 words)

A. J. Liebling, The Earl of Louisiana “Liebling wrote well on many subjects, but his best book is The Earl of Louisiana. Captivated by his subject, Liebling remained to write the fascinating yet tragic story of “Uncle Earl&; final year in politics. “Not only has Liebling given us an astute insight into the life of a southern politico, but he has sketched the politicl environment that spawns a Louisiana governor.”—Library Journal www.lsu.edu /lsupress/Books/1970/Liebling_Earl_LA.html   (496 words)

Powell's Books - Mollie and Other War Pieces (Bison Book) by A J Liebling Powell's Books - Mollie and Other War Pieces (Bison Book) by A J Liebling Liebling's war was a vast human-interest story, told with a heart for the feelings of the people involved and the deepest respect for those who played their parts with heroism, however small or ordinary the stage. Liebling's coverage of the Second World War for the "New Yorker gives us a fresh and unexpected view of the war--stories told in the words of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who fought it, the civilians who endured it, and the correspondents who covered it. www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0803280319   (304 words)

IBHOF / A.J. Leibling One of boxing's greatest chroniclers, A.J. Liebling wrote about the sport with a brilliance and wit that may never be surpassed. Liebling spent many an hour at ringside, but his best writing sprang from his connections behind the scenes. In 1935, Liebling began a 28-year association with The New Yorker, which lasted until his death in 1963. www.ibhof.com /leibling.htm   (256 words)

Biblio: Just Enough Liebling by Liebling- A. J: Details Liebling produced a collection of articles on a variety of subjects, including biographical profiles of boxers, vividly evocative memoirs of life in France during World War II (including some of his reporting from the battlefield), and--always--compelling appreciations of the good life, and especially of food. New Yorker editor David Remnick introduces this collection of the writing of A.J. Liebling, who wrote for the magazine from 1935 until his death in 1963. Biblio: Just Enough Liebling by Liebling- A. J: Details www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/22038526.html   (298 words)

November/December 2001 .J. Liebling, who died in 1963, was a polymath who wrote on a vast array of topics -- New York, Paris, boxing, horse racing, labor, gambling, Broadway life, Stendahl, gastronomy -- but his reputation rests largely on the innovative press criticism he did for The New Yorker. Raymond Sokolov, his biographer, notes: "He lampooned clichés, ferreted out blunders and illogicalities, and took some pretty hard socks at injustice." Liebling deplored the anticommunist fervor of the 1940s and 1950s and continually lashed the Hearst, Luce, and McCormick publications for their crude red-baiting and their anti-labor bias. A man of routine, Liebling rose each morning at 9:00 to find a thick stack of newspapers on his doorstep. archives.cjr.org /year/01/6/1963.asp   (662 words)

Punch and bite of A.J. Liebling A.J.) Liebling is now undergoing his third revival in the past quarter-century, the first one kicked off by Raymond Sokolov's 1980 biography, "Wayward Reporter," and the second by the rash of Liebling paperback reprints in the '90s. If one has reservations about "Just Enough Liebling," it is because each sampling ends just as you are ready for more; in some cases, a desire to read more will send you scurrying for books that are hard to find. "Just Enough Liebling," with an introduction by New Yorker editor David Remnick, is appreciated, however mistitled. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/21/RVGRD9QLE01.DTL   (758 words)

Only A Game : Feature : Marx on Liebling In 2002, "Sports Illustrated" named "The Sweet Science" the "best American sports book of all time." Since its author, A.J. Liebling would have turned 100 on October 18th, and his 1956 book is back in print from North Point Press, it is a good time to celebrate the writer and his words. Liebling's brilliance is that he filters this decadence through a tongue-in-cheek, yet reverent, memory of the fabled past. Liebling's "The Sweet Science" is one of the finest sports books ever written because it combines the innocent passion of a fan with the hard-boiled scrutiny of a detective. www.onlyagame.org /features/2004/10/marxlieb.asp   (489 words)

Robert Christgau: Full of Himself But however hilariously he preached (and practiced) just-the-facts orthodoxy, Liebling's best writing was always full of Liebling, all 300 pounds of his unmistakable first person. New Yorker stalwart Liebling was not one for noble poverty. I learned plenty while reencountering the masters who lured me into my trade--for instance, how much of the journalism I treasure, including early Pauline Kael and Dwight Macdonald and Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp," was written for journals that paid even worse than this one. www.robertchristgau.com /xg/misc/liebling-cp.php   (243 words)

Commentary Magazine - Around the Block with A.J. Liebling ...Of Liebling’s various subjects, food, mostly the food he had eaten in Paris as a young man, was the one with obsessional standing... ...Liebling had three marriages, two of them disasters and the third, to the writer Jean Stafford, no déjeuner sur l’herbe... ...When John Lardner, his colleague at the New Yorker, died, Liebling was assigned the obituary... www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V118I5P47-1.htm   (3338 words)

DART CENTER for Journalism & Trauma Of course, judging Liebling solely by his war reporting is like judging a French tasting menu after having sampled only the foie gras; it's instructive, certainly, but it leaves one with little sense of the full experience. A.J. Liebling's reporting for The New Yorker during World War II confounds the modern-day reader’s expectations of combat reporting. (“‘Just like a movie!’ was a standard reaction,” Liebling writes. www.dartcenter.org /articles/books/just_enough_liebling.html   (865 words)

PressThink: Comment on The Convention in Section View Of course, his piece was about A.J. Liebling and the modern press, not any of this. A.J. Liebling wrote the Wayward Press column for the New Yorker. After Jack Shafer interrupted my blogging to tap me on the shoulder and say, "you're no A.J. Liebling, man," I read his piece on that problem in Slate. journalism.nyu.edu /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1321   (1132 words)

Mike Barnicle plagiarism Twelve and a half years ago, Barnicle wrote a column in which he clearly borrowed heavily -- lifting exact quotes, complete with idiosyncratic spelling -- from A.J. Liebling's 1961 biography of Louisiana political legend Earl Long, The Earl of Louisiana. In a piece on the fabrications of Smith and the New Republic's Stephen Glass, published before Barnicle's most recent troubles, Kirtz writes that "Barnicle lifted without credit scores of details from A.J. Liebling's The Earl of Louisiana." But the particulars of that incident have never been reported -- until now. Liebling: " 'I want to introduce to you the man I have selected to serve under me as Lieutenant Governor during my next term of office -- a fine Frenchmun, a fine Catholic, the father of twenty-three children, Mr. www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/features/98/08/20/MIKE_BARNICLE_STEALS.html   (1517 words)

Guide to the A.J. Liebling Collection,1920-1963 Correspondence includes letters from Liebling to his parents, Joseph and Anna Liebling, describing his life as a student at Dartmouth and at the Sorbonne in the early 1920's, and later letters to them which describe Paris before the Nazi occupation and London during the blitz. Manuscripts, correspondence, and other papers of A.J. Liebling, an American journalist who served as reporter and columnist for the New Yorker magazine from 1935-1963. Other correspondents include Liebling's first wife, Ann (Beatrice McGinn) Liebling, and Jean Stafford, who became his third wife. rmc.library.cornell.edu /EAD/htmldocs/RMM04613.html   (327 words)

The Telephone Booth Indian by A. J. Liebling LIEBLING joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935 and stayed there until his death in 1963. A classic work on Broadway sharpers, grifters, and con men by the late, great New Yorker journalist A. Liebling. Often referred to as “Liebling lowlife pieces,” the essays in The Telephone Booth Indian boisterously celebrate raffishness. www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767917360   (179 words)

Amazon.com: Just Enough Liebling: Books: A. J. Liebling,David Remnick Liebling will come up with something absolutely hilarious or some wonderfully turned phrase in the midst of a lot of pleasant-enough "nothing." He has the same way of deflating the grand and inflating the trivial that Jerry, Elaine, Kramer, and George have. A.J. Liebling is a quirky, funny, one-of-a-kind writer whom I adore. Heady words, considering the breadth of subjects in this volume; Liebling's discourses are stuffed with the observations of a savvy globetrotter. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374104433?v=glance   (1460 words)

village voice > news > Press Clips by Cynthia Cotts It was OK for A.J. Liebling or Edward Murrow to be unapologetically liberal, to slug whiskey in the office, and to bend the truth in a résumé while breaking news about big lies. According to Remnick, Liebling debuted by thumbing his nose at two venerable institutions, the Columbia School of Journalism and The New York Times. Not only were media owners capable of benign neglect, but mentors on the editorial side encouraged talents like Liebling and McGrory to develop their writing skills and personalities. www.villagevoice.com /cotts   (982 words)

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