Manhattan, When I Was Young

A “wonderful memoir” of a woman’s life as a fashion-magazine writer in 1950s and ’60s New York ( Publishers Weekly ). Mary Cantwell arrived in Manhattan one summer in the early 1950s with eighty dollars, a portable typewriter, a wardrobe of unsuitable clothes, a copy of The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins , a boyfriend she was worried might be involved with the Communists, and no idea how to live on her own. She moved to the Village because she had heard of it, and worked at Mademoiselle because