About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made

Ben Yagoda (Teacher of Journalism, University of Delaware, USA)

About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made
Format
Paperback
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group
Country
United States
Published
12 February 2001
Pages
496
ISBN
9780306810237

About Town: The New Yorker and the World it Made

Ben Yagoda (Teacher of Journalism, University of Delaware, USA)

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. Incorporating interviews with more than fifty former and current New Yorker writers, including the late Joseph Mitchell, Roger Angell, the late Pauline Kael, Calvin Trillin, and Ann Beattie, Yagoda is 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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