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Bezig met laden... About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Madedoor Ben Yagoda
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Fascinating book of one of the few magazines that's still around from my childhood. Yagoda did a great deal of research and certainly captures the magazine at least during the 20th century. It is a bit dated now, but the history of how a magazine succeeded by publishing such earth-shaking features as Hiroshima and Silent Spring, and sponsored Thurber and White is inspiring. A must for anyone interested in the intellectual life of the U.S. in the 20th century or in the history of media. I love this book. Yagoda says he was literally the first person in line to see the recently opened New Yorker archives, so he had access to information that no one before him was able to use. This is the biography of a magazine: it's comprehensive and it's a huge read. Yagoda laces the book with lots of quotations, anecdotes, and photos. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"About Town tells fascinating story of how a tiny humor magazine, founded in the Jazz Age on champagne vapors, grew into a literary enterprise of epic proportion. Ben Yagoda is the first author to make extensive use of the New Yorker's archives, which were donated to the New York Public Library in 1991. Illuminated by interviews with more than fifty people, including the late Joseph Mitchell, William Steig, Roger Angell, Calvin Trillin, Pauline Kael, John Updike, and Ann Beattie, About Town penetrates the inner workings of the New Yorker as no other book has done."--BOOK JACKET. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Yagoda gained access to the archives of The New Yorker when they were donated to the New York Public Library. He recognized a good story when he saw it. He covers the events of the magazine from its beginnings with the legendary editor Harold Ross until the late 1990s. He goes into fascinating descriptions of the people involved in the magazine and how their personalities and quirks shaped it. To me, the book was as engrossing as a good novel. For decades, I've looked at many of its writers as mythical figures. It was humbling and somehow heartening to find that they were human after all.
Now I need to find his book on Will Rogers. ( )