Cast of characters
Subtitle: Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber, and the golden age of the New Yorker
By: Thomas Vinciguerra
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780393240030
Subjects: New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925); Periodicals; Publishing; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-422) and index.
Table of contents: title: A Christmas greeting to The New Yorkers"; title: "Either competent or horrible"; title: "A ludicrous pastime"; title: "Infatuation with pinheads"; title: "Boy, do I like to handle authors!"; title: "Most insanely miscast"; title: "An offense to the ear"; title: "Pretty gummy at best"; title: "A silly occupation for a grown man"; title: "I am a child of the sun"; title: "Always poison"; title: "Flying high and fast"; title: "The moral climate is against it"; title: "A lot of suicidal enterprises"; title: "Whose days, in any case, were numbered."