Word: yorkerism
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...latest issue of the New Yorker reported that Bill Clinton’s Harlem office is searching for an intern. The gig has no salary and requires a work week that lasts 15 hours...
...Japanese magic realism, but is a much tamer and less venturesome writer. But novels such as Dance Dance Dance and Norwegian Wood have been runaway best sellers, racking up sales in the millions, and his short stories have been published in prestigious American magazines such as The New Yorker. However, Sputnik Sweetheart (Kodansha International; 210 pages), the latest shot out of the Murakami cannon, sadly promises more than it can deliver and proves...
...very un-New Yorker thing to do,” Jackson says. “I think there’s something different going...
...Cold War ("Russians"), surely today?s other New York-area performers will find meaning and inspiration in the city?s recent history. Already, New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen has written a song that deals with the recent attacks that Latin pop crooner Marc Anthony, a native New Yorker, may record for his new album. In 1994, on his song "NY State of Mind," the rapper Nas rapped "nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind." His words still ring true...
...well and more people are paying attention to it than ever before, say practitioners of the art like Kurt Andersen `76 (co-founder of Spy, former editor-and-chief of New York magazine and co-founder of Inside.com) and Andy Borowitz `80 (a regular contributor to the New Yorker and NPR’s Weekend Edition) because in every time of darkness, dark humor comforts where platitudes disgust. The humor magazine The Onion is doing its patriotic duty and, thanks to a mainstream media obsession with irony’s supposed death, future or second coming, the business of funny...