What happens when the most silver-tongued eccentric in English literature collides with the mean streets of early 20th-century New York? Psmith, Journalist finds Wodehouse in unexpectedly serious territory, a comedy writer with a social conscience, turning his wit against slum landlords and gangsters while somehow maintaining his signature charm. Psmith arrives in Manhattan accompanying his Cambridge friend Mike for a cricketing tour, but his talent for being indispensable soon lands him at Cosy Moments, a dying periodical he decides to transform into a hard-hitting publication. The results are glorious chaos: investigative journalism meets Broadway boxers, tenant activists meet hoodlum intimidation, and one impossibly polished British snob discovers that New York punches back. This is Wodehouse unchained from pure farce, proving he could do sharp social commentary without sacrificing a single quip. For readers who adore the later Jeeves stories but have always wondered what P.G. Wodehouse looked like when he got angry.
