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A. J. Liebling

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A. J. Liebling: World War II Writings
The Road Back to Paris | Mollie and Other War Pieces | Normandy Revisited | uncollected war journalism
LOA N°181
A. J. Liebling: The Sweet Science and Other Writings
The Sweet Science | The Earl of Louisiana | The Jollity Building | Between Meals | The Press
LOA N°191
Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1944–1946
45 writers report on the events of the last two years, from the Italian campaign and D-Day to the surrender of Japan. Included in full: Bill Mauldin’s Up Front, complete with his famous cartoons, and John Hersey’s Hiroshima.
LOA N°78
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology
Seventy writers spanning three centuries record their impressions of the City of Lights
True Crime: An American Anthology
Fifty writers explore America’s uneasy fascination with violence and show the full spectrum of the true-crime genre
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Pete Hamill on A. J. Liebling: The Sweet Science and Other Writings
The late journalist and quintessential New Yorker edited two collections of Liebling’s work for LOA. In this 2009 interview, he pays tribute to his forebear.
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