Author

Publication

2000 - Scribner, New York, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

119,500 words, Guess

Page Count

478 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing8399
  • Goodreads1895771

Classifications

  • DDC051/.09/04
  • LCCPN4900.N35 Y34 2000

Description

"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.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryThe New YorkerThe New Yorker (weekblad)New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) -- History.

Other Editions

  • About Town: The New Yorker and the World It MadePaperbackScribner2000-01-01

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