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The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer

di Gene Weingarten

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GENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is--in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable. Millions of people know the title piece about violinist Joshua Bell, which originally began as a stunt: What would happen if you put a world-class musician outside a Washington, D.C., subway station to play for spare change? Would anyone even notice? The answer was no. Weingarten's story went viral, becoming a widely referenced lesson about life lived too quickly. Other classic stories--the one about "The Great Zucchini," a wildly popular but personally flawed children's entertainer; the search for the official "Armpit of America"; a profile of the typical American nonvoter--all of them reveal as much about their readers as they do their subjects.… (altro)
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I thought this book was mixed. Some of the stories were fascinating and brilliant, and others I found boring. Overall, I did enjoy it, and would recommend to someone trying to get into nonfiction. ( )
  queenofthebobs | Feb 10, 2023 |
It has been a while since I read a book that I felt deserved five stars, but here it is. If it were possible, I would probably give it six stars. This is a collection of columns first written by the Pulitzer Prize winning author for publication in The Washington Post. They cover such diverse humorous topics as the author’s search for the town that is truly the “Armpit of America,” his search for and reintroduction to the girl he had a crush on in 2nd grade and had not seen since, and his time spent with “The Great Zucchini,” a children’s clown in Washington D.C. who is so popular that he is booked years in advance for huge sums of money, yet lives little better than a homeless person. On the opposite end of the spectrum, he covers truly serious topics such as the effects of war injuries and PTSD in his extended interview with Garry Trudeau, the author and illustrator of the Doonesbury comic, and how it feels to live with fear as he visits locations that suffer frequent suicide bombings. By far, the most powerful essay is the heart-wrenching, tear-inducing, almost impossible-to-read story of parents who have left a child in a car on a hot summer day with fatal consequences. Weingarten’s writing is beautiful. You MUST read this book! ( )
  TheresaCIncinnati | Aug 17, 2015 |
This book is an excellent collection of articles from The Washington Post by the feature writer Gene Weingarten. Weingarten’s human-interest articles are well written, entertaining, and thought provoking. He has the ability to make almost anything interesting. Some articles had me laughing aloud, others left me with tears streaming down my cheeks. I think there is something in the collection for everyone. ( )
  klburnside | Aug 11, 2015 |
I don't usually like collections, but these aren't normal short stories. These are feature stories from the Washington Post, by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, that I would otherwise have never read. I am glad I got the opportunity to read these truly powerful stories.



A quote I liked from the Doonesbury article: "It is a cliché, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration." ( )
  heike6 | May 2, 2013 |
I don't usually like collections, but these aren't normal short stories. These are feature stories from the Washington Post, by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, that I would otherwise have never read. I am glad I got the opportunity to read these truly powerful stories.



A quote I liked from the Doonesbury article: "It is a cliché, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration." ( )
  heike6 | May 2, 2013 |
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GENE WEINGARTEN IS THE O. HENRY OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM Simply the best storyteller around, Weingarten describes the world as you think it is before revealing how it actually is--in narratives that are by turns hilarious, heartwarming, and provocative, but always memorable. Millions of people know the title piece about violinist Joshua Bell, which originally began as a stunt: What would happen if you put a world-class musician outside a Washington, D.C., subway station to play for spare change? Would anyone even notice? The answer was no. Weingarten's story went viral, becoming a widely referenced lesson about life lived too quickly. Other classic stories--the one about "The Great Zucchini," a wildly popular but personally flawed children's entertainer; the search for the official "Armpit of America"; a profile of the typical American nonvoter--all of them reveal as much about their readers as they do their subjects.

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