Category: Journalism

Octavo, blue backed white boards (hardcover), 478 pp. Fine (As New), in like, As New, dust jacket. Illustrated. ÒAbout town, written with all the authority and elegance such a subject demands, tells an endlessly 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...At his disposal are thousands of smoking guns -- three thousand boxes of correspondence, interoffice memos, and edited manuscripts and galleys. Illuminate...
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Category: Journalism

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