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At least partially drawn from LeDuff's former "Bending Elbows" column in the New York Times's Sunday City section (available only in the five boroughs), the pieces collected here sketch various habitues of city saloons, mostly working men. Clearly in the grip of some potent nostalgia for John O'Hara, LeDuff is, to his credit, pretty respectful of his subjects-bartenders and lounge singers, bankrupt dot-commers and prison inmates, lighthouse keepers and firemen, homeless freaks and transsexual hustlers-basically anyone who fits into his particular concept of poignant, grubby, overlooked humanity. His carefully dry, clipped style honors their experiences and habits, but with the notable exception of one sequence on immigrant laborers in a Long Island suburb, he does little to advance the interests of his subjects. And while LeDuff does provide a handful of familiar female types-a faded chorus girl, a stricken widow, a runaway teenager, a pair of 50-ish spinsters looking for "Mr. Dreamy" and a few old mamas-the city's female workers evidently don't rate as worthy of the name. LeDuff, who now covers L.A. life and lifestyles for the Times, won a Pulitzer in 2001 for a series on race, and produces some nice counterpoints of prejudices, sentiments, pearls of wisdom, and non sequiturs. "When the cocktail set tells me they enjoy the cast of losers... I smile and drink their liquor. They don't know what work is." That may be true, but it's equally clear, with myriad de*ions like "a Laura Ashley girl gone wrong," that LeDuff is writing for them.

Introduction

Work

Good-bye to Mr. Hello and Good-bye

The Michelangelo of the Hard Sell

Mother's Day? Florists Love and Love It Not

He's No Bob Dole, but He's Still a Celebrity

A Mohawk Trail to the Skyline

"Rasputins"

Gravediggers' Gallows (What Else?) Humor

How Time Goes By on West Forty-third Street

Where Sinatra Fills Your Ears, If Not Your Eyes

A Bleaker Santa's-Eye View

A Barber's SoothingAria

Harlem Nocturne for a Still-Beautiful Chorus Girl

On Top of the World

Where Is King Kong When a Bulb Goes Out?

Stray Thoughts at 1,454 FeetIn the Pit

Hauling the Debris, and Darker Burdens

A Night Shift to Numb the Body and Soul

Hard Hats and Soft Hands at a Ground Zero Bar

On the Corner

Hard Work in Hostile Suburbs

Brooklyn Poles and Jews Refashion Old World Ties

On Land and Sea

Last Days of the Baymen

Springtime for the Harbor Police

The Man to See for Raccoon Pie

So It's a Lighthouse. Now Leave Me Alone

THE SLAUOHTERHOUSE

At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die

JOINTS

At This Bar, Everything Is on the Table

Schlitz on Draft

A Bar on Rails

Smile for the Camera

A Beer Hall with Homegrown Czech Nostalgia

The Harbor Light Stays On

The Lights Are Bright, the Hours Always Happy

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