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About Town

The New Yorker and the World It Made

By Ben Yagoda

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| Paperback | 9780306810237

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First time in paperback: The definitive history of one of America's most enduring and important cultural institutions

For more than seven decades, The New Yorker has been the embodiment of urban sophistication and literary accomplishment, the magazine where the best work of virtually every proseContinue

First time in paperback: The definitive history of one of America's most enduring and important cultural institutions

For more than seven decades, The New Yorker has been the embodiment of urban sophistication and literary accomplishment, the magazine where the best work of virtually every prose giant of the century first appeared. With all the authority and elegance such a subject demands, Yagoda tells the fascinating story of the tiny journal that grew into a literary enterprise of epic proportions. Incorpo-rating interviews with more than fifty former and current New Yorker writers, including the late Joseph Mitchell, Roger Angell, Pauline Kael, Calvin Trillin, and Ann Beattie, Yagoda is also the first author to make extensive use of The New Yorker's archives. About Town penetrates the inner workings of The New Yorker as no other book has done, opening a window on a lost age.

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  • About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made By Ben Yagoda

    75 years of painting the town readThe journalist Richard Rovere once said of Harold Ross, the founding editor of the New Yorker magazine, that his fundamental contribution to journalism was his fight for the dignity of the printed word. Read in the c ... (read full critics)

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  • Paperback 496 Pages
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  • ISBN-10: 0306810239
  • ISBN-13: 9780306810237
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press
  • Pub date: Mar 06, 2001
  • Dimensions: 1484 mm x 968 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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