| About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made Contributor(s): Yagoda, Ben (Author) |
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ISBN: 0306810239 ISBN-13: 9780306810237 Publisher: Da Capo Press OUR PRICE: $23.74 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2001 Annotation: For the first time in paperback comes the definitive history of "The New Yorker", one of America's most enduring and important cultural institutions. of photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 051.090 |
| Series: New Yorker and the World It Made |
| Physical Information: 1.24" H x 5.94" W x 9.1" (1.64 lbs) 496 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |