Writing for The New Yorker: Critical Essays on an American Periodical

Fiona Green

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2015

Writing for The New Yorker

Critical Essays on an American Periodical

Fiona Green

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748682508

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About this book

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.

Key Features:

Eleven new perspectives on major American writers, including Roth, Cheever, Plath, and Updike, in relation to their first publication contexts
Reconsiders modern and contemporary American writing and periodical culture, focusing critical attention on commercially successful ‘smart’ magazines
Draws on new research in The New Yorker’s manuscript and digital archives
A distinctive combination of close critical reading and cultural analysis

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Abbreviation Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Contributos Fiona Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Magazine and Marketplace
1. The New Yorker, the Middlebrow, and the Periodical Marketplace in 1925 Faye Hammill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. ‘We Stand Corrected’: New Yorker Fact-checking and the Business of American Accuracy Sarah Cain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
3. Marianne Moore and the Hidden Persuaders Fiona Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
II Self-Fashioning
4. Philip Roth’s Kinds of Writing Bharat Tandon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
5. Spark’s Proofs Deborah Bowman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
6. Sylvia Plath and ‘The Blessed Glossy New Yorker’ Linda Freedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
7. The Distractions of John Cheever Tamara Follini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
III Lightness and Gravity
8. Portrait of the Rabbit as a Young Beau: John Updike, New Yorker Humorist Thomas Karshan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
9. Sports at The New Yorker Kasia Boddy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
10. The New Yorker Life of Hannah Arendt’s Mind Duncan Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
11. On Blustering: Dwight Macdonald, Modernism and The New Yorker Tom Perrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Other: 16 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: January 20, 2015
ISBN: 9780748682508