New York Stories

`You can binge on O'Hara's collections in the way some people binge on Mad Men, and for some of the same reasons' Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review Seen through its whirl of speakeasies and highballs, social climbers and cinema stars, mistresses and power brokers, there is no greater chronicler of New York's so-called Golden Age than John O'Hara and his short stories. Unsparingly observed, brilliantly cutting and always on the edge of tragic epiphany, the stories collected here are among O'Hara's finest work, and show why he still stands as the most-published short story writer in the history of The New Yorker.