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Here at the New Yorker
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Here at the New Yorker Paperback - 1997

by Gill, Brendan

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For over 60 years, Brendan Gill has been a contented inmate of the singular institution known as "The New Yorker", long known as a home for the unemployables. This delightful tour of New York's most glorious madhouse and its wards and attendants, including William Shawn, Harold Ross, James Thurber, Katherine and E.B. White, John O'Hara, Edmund Wilson, and others, has been updated with a new Introduction detailing the reign of Robert Gottlieb and Tina Brown. 31 illustrations.

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  • Title Here at the New Yorker
  • Author Gill, Brendan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 440
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hachette Books, New York
  • Date 1997-08-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9802405-6
  • ISBN 9780306808104 / 0306808102
  • Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.55 x 5.47 x 1.07 in (21.72 x 13.89 x 2.72 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
  • Library of Congress subjects Authors, American - 20th century - Biography, Journalists - United States - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97014423
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the rear cover

For over sixty years Brendan Gill has been a contented inmate of the singular institution known as The New Yorker. This affectionate account of the magazine, long known as a home for congenital unemployables, is a celebration of its wards and attendants - William Shawn, Harold Ross's gentle and courtly successor as editor; the incorrigible mischief-maker James Thurber; the two Whites, Katherine and E.B.; John O'Hara, "master of the fancied slight"; and, among a hundred others, Peter Arno, Saul Steinberg, Edmund Wilson, Lewis Mumford, and Pauline Kael. Brendan Gill has known them all, and by virtue of his virtually total recall, keen eye, and impeccable prose, his diverting portraits of these eccentrics in rage and repose are amply supplied with both dimples and warts. Here at The New Yorkernow updated with a new introduction detailing the reigns of Robert Gottlieb and Tina Brown - is a delightful tour of New York's most glorious madhouse.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Brill's Content, 05/01/2000, Page 121
  • Entertainment Weekly, 04/17/2015, Page 114
  • Library Journal, 04/01/1998, Page 131

About the author

Brendan Gill (1914-1997) was a staff writer for theNew Yorker for over sixty years. He was the author of over twenty books, including his memoir, Here at the New Yorker (also available from Da Capo Press/Perseus Books Group), three works of fiction, and biographies of Cole Porter, Tallulah Bankhead, and Charles Lindbergh.