
This collection of the author's reporting pieces that have appeared in The New Yorker includes a profile of Jim Deren, the famous fisherman who had a fishing tackle store near Grand Central Station, and a report on bears in Montana.

"Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody" is a collection of five extended essays that appeared in "The New Yorker" from 1978 to 1986. In the tradition of A. J. Liebling and Joseph Mitchell, Frazier raises journalism to high literary art. His vivid stories showcase a strange and wonderful...

