Psmith, Journalist

By P. G. Wodehouse Reconvene with Psmith as he takes on the Big Apple as no one else can, ingeniously managing a newspaper, bravely battling with gangs, and cooly confronting slum lords.  While his friend Mike Jackson tours the U.S.A. playing cricket for Cam­bridge, Psmith befriends Billy Windsor, the sub-editor of that homely paper, Cosy Moments. Appalled by New York’s widespread political corruption and pockets of abject poverty, Psmith and Billy turn Cosy Moments into a voice as “the guardians of the People’s rights.” The gangs and various beneficiaries of the crooked system, unsurprisingly, are not altogether thrilled about this development in social conscience and journalistic vim and vigor. Psmith, however, is not daunted in the slightest. The cry goes round, “Cosy Moments cannot be muzzled!”  “I am Psmith,” said the old Etonian reverently. “There is a preliminary P before the name. This, however, is silent. Like the tomb.” Sir Pelham Grenville (P. G.) Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English author and playwright and one of the premier humorists of the twentieth century. His inimitable prose, in the words of Evelyn Waugh, “has made a world for us to live in and delight in.” Wodehouse’s hundreds of written works include the masterful Jeeves & Wooster and Blandings Castle stories. Paperback: 204pp. ISBN: 978-1944418311