This Old Man: All in Pieces
By Roger Angell
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
This Old Man: All in Pieces is a 2015 collection by Roger Angell, the longtime New Yorker writer and editor. It gathers essays, letters, poems, light verse and remembrances from across his career, published when he was in his nineties. The title essay, about the experience of being old and still in love with life, won a National Magazine Award. Other pieces recall friends such as E. B. White and John Updike, along with family, baseball and decades at the magazine.
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