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Loading... Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorkerby Thomas Vinciguerra
![]() None No current Talk conversations about this book. I have always been a sucker for The New Yorker. Curiously, however, I've rarely read the magazine. Instead, I'm an aficionado of some of the fine journalism that graces its pages. And I'm entranced how one man (founder and original editor Harold Ross) managed to corral so many talented writers and to somehow keep them locked onto his vision for a truly metropolitan weekly magazine. This book was a wonderful read for me no reviews | add a review
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"From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the country's most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In [this book], Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine's cadre of charming, wisecracking, driven, troubled, brilliant writers and editors"--Dust jacket flap. No library descriptions found. |
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From the founder and editor Harold Ross, to Wolcott Gibbs, James Thurber, E, B, White, Katharine Angell, John O'Hara, and John Hershey the book chronicles how these brilliant and talented people created a magazine that grew to be the thought leader of the country. My only complaint is that there is too little Dorothy Parker. (