Originality shines through in A.J. Liebling collection

Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer

By A.J. Liebling, introduction by David Remnick

North Point, 534 pages $15 paper

The famous “Second City” essay isn’t here, but this collection is bursting with colorful dispatches from one of America’s most admired–and imitated–stylists. On subjects ranging from the “sweet science” of boxing to Louisiana, A.J. Liebling’s originality (“Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly”) bounces off the page.