About Town
Subtitle: The New Yorker and the World It Made
By: Ben Yagoda.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) -- History.
Description: "About Town tells 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, which were donated to the New York Public Library in 1991.

Illuminated by interviews with more than fifty people, including the late Joseph Mitchell, William Steig, Roger Angell, Calvin Trillin, Pauline Kael, John Updike, and Ann Beattie, About Town penetrates the inner workings of the New Yorker as no other book has done."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-453) and index.