New Book Reveals the Inside Scoop of Working at The New Yorker

Want to know what it was like working at The New Yorker, back in the day?

Janet Groth, a former receptionist, worked at the magazine for 21 years. In her new book The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker, Groth (now a college professor) dishes about her time there from 1957 until 1978.

Groth told The New York Times her receptionist’s chair near the elevator provided her with “a bird’s-eye view of everything and a hot plate, which I brought.”She

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