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

By: Gene Weingarten

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Paperback | 6 July 2010

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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.

"Giving Gene Weingarten the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing was like giving Martin Scorsese the Oscar for Best Director: it's not about what he did that year, it's about what he's been doing for decades, better than anybody, even before people started to notice. He's the best nonfiction writer in America, and only a few of us knew it. Now, with this anthology, we get to say: Told ya."---Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me

"`The Great Zucchini' is the greatest feature story ever written."---Erik Wemple, The Washington City Paper

"Gene Weingarten is the best writer in American journalism. He's a master at finding a story that nobody else would have thought to pursue, researching it doggedly, and telling it in such a riveting way that you feel as though you're reading a terrific novel."---Dave Barry, author, humorist, and columnist

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“Gene Weingarten is the best writer in American journalism. He’s a master at finding a story that nobody else would have thought to pursue, researching it doggedly, and telling it in such a riveting way that you feel as though you’re reading a terrific novel.”
--Dave Barry, author, humorist, and columnist

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Media Studies Sociology & Anthropology Comedy & Humour Humour Collections & Anthologies

Introduction	p. xi
The Great Zucchini	p. 1
The First Father	p. 31
The Ghost of the Hardy Boys	p. 50
Roger and Me	p. 66
The Armpit of America	p. 69
My Father's Vision, Part I	p. 94
Snowbound	p. 99
A Wing and a Prayer	p. 129
Tears for Audrey	p. 132
If You Go Chasing Rabbits...	p. 155
Fear Itself	p. 173
Yankee Doodle Danny	p. 202
Pardon My French...	p. 206
Doonesbury's War	p. 231
You Go, Girl	p. 260
None of the Above	p. 265
Fatal Distraction	p. 291
An Honorable Affair	p. 321
My Father's Vision, Part II	p. 334
The Fiddler in the Subway	p. 337
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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

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