Hilton Als "Exceptionally curious, exceedingly brave, with a perfect ear: through Lillian Ross and her classic reporting, we've gotten the chance to sneak into the private worlds of the great and the fascinating (Chaplin, Hemingway, Truffaut, Huston).
Her innate sense of form and eye for the telling, often humorous detail, are part of what makes her work so indelible and influential-that and her understanding of how the family of man becomes just that. For me, without doubt, the best of these discoveries is her droll and deadpan profile of the larger-than-life Brooklynite Sidney Franklin, titled "El Unico Matador." (Not incidentally, this was Ross's first New Yorker profile that appeared under her own byline.) - Peter Stamelman * Brooklyn Eagle * "An anthology of New Yorker stories form a living bridge to journalism's golden age.Readable and rewarding and.full of exemplary reporting." * Kirkus * Lillian Ross has elevated journalism-storytelling-to an art but it is her art, singular and brilliant. With the publication of "Reporting Always: Writings from The New Yorker," with a forward by The New Yorker's editor, David Remnick, we have the opportunity to reacquaint ourselves with the work of Ms.
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