Janet Groth discusses her memoir The Receptionist with New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead

Just out of college, midwestern native Janet Groth became the receptionist at The New Yorker in 1957 and remained in the position for twenty-one years. She ran interference for angry wives checking on adulterous husbands, drank with famous writers, and was seduced, two-timed, proposed to, and manipulated by a few of those eccentric inhabitants of the magazine's eighteenth floor. Janet talks about her book, her experiences, and the culture of The New Yorker with Fort Greene neighbor Rebecca Mead, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1997 who has profiled everyone from Slavoj Zizek to Shaquille O’Neal.