Writing for the New Yorker
Subtitle: Critical Essays on an American Periodical
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780748682492
Subjects: American prose literature, history and criticism; Journalism, united states; New yorker (new york, n.y. : 1925)
Description: Original critical essays on an iconic American periodical, providing new insights into twentieth-century literary culture. This collection of newly commissioned critical essays reads across and between New Yorker departments, from sports writing to short stories, cartoons to reporters at large, poetry to annals of business. Attending to the relations between these kinds of writing and the magazine's visual and material constituents, the collection examines the distinctive ways in which imaginative writing has inhabited the 'prime real estate' of this enormously influential periodical. In bringing together a range of sharply angled analyses of particular authors, styles, columns, and pages, this book offers multiple perspectives on American writing and periodical culture at specific moments in twentieth-century history.