Cast of Characters
Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker
Seiten
2016
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-24003-0 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-24003-0 (ISBN)
The professional and personal lives of the pioneers of an enduring magazine.
From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as America’s most prestigious, entertaining and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine’s cadre of charming, driven, troubled brilliant writers and editors.
Many of these characters became legends in their own right but Vinciguerra also shows how, as a group, The New Yorker’s inner circle brought forth a profound transformation in how life was perceived, interpreted, written about and published in America. Cast of Characters is the most revealing and entertaining book yet about the personalities who built what Ross called not a magazine but a “movement”.
From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as America’s most prestigious, entertaining and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine’s cadre of charming, driven, troubled brilliant writers and editors.
Many of these characters became legends in their own right but Vinciguerra also shows how, as a group, The New Yorker’s inner circle brought forth a profound transformation in how life was perceived, interpreted, written about and published in America. Cast of Characters is the most revealing and entertaining book yet about the personalities who built what Ross called not a magazine but a “movement”.
Thomas Vinciguerra is a founding editor of The Week magazine and a regular contributor to the New York Times. He is the editor of Conversations with Elie Wiesel and Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker. He lives on Long Island.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.1.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 8 pages of illustrations |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 165 x 244 mm |
Gewicht | 825 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik | |
Wirtschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-393-24003-7 / 0393240037 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-24003-0 / 9780393240030 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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