Bibliograph

Cast of characters, Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber, and the golden age of the New Yorker, Thomas Vinciguerra

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Cast of characters, Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber, and the golden age of the New Yorker, Thomas Vinciguerra

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-422) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cast of characters

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

902661365

Responsibility statement

Thomas Vinciguerra

Sub title

Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber, and the golden age of the New Yorker

Summary

"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

Table Of Contents

A Christmas greeting to The New Yorkers" -- "Either competent or horrible" -- "A ludicrous pastime" -- "Infatuation with pinheads" -- "Boy, do I like to handle authors!" -- "Most insanely miscast" -- "An offense to the ear" -- "Pretty gummy at best" -- "A silly occupation for a grown man" -- "I am a child of the sun" -- "Always poison" -- "Flying high and fast" -- "The moral climate is against it" -- "A lot of suicidal enterprises" -- "Whose days, in any case, were numbered."

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