Word: yorkerism
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...sample of Wolfe's short fiction, the novella "Ambush at Fort Bragg," appears right after the "My Three Stooges" chapter, as if to say, judge my fiction for yourself, you skeptics! For some reason, Wolfe's famous (or not-so-famous, depending on your generation) parody of The New Yorker and its editor William Shawn, published in the New York Herald Tribune in 1965 finish up the collection...
...pseudo-New Yorker and an American of voting age, public television this Tuesday night should have been nothing less than exhilarating. The major networks broadcast the final presidential debate, a contest that ostensibly helps to decide public opinion about the candidates. On NBC, the Mariners battled from a game behind in the American League Championships to try to prevent the Yankees from reaching what would be the first Subway Series in 44 years. The prospect of seeing El Duque, David Justice, Vice Pesident Al Gore '69 and Texas Gov. George W. Bush strut their stuff all in one evening--well...
...article generated controversy when it was first published in The New Yorker in 1997, to coincide with the Broadway revival of the play...
...true Yankee dynasty used to be composed of five or six Hall of Famers--all of whom would be immortalized in Cooperstown wearing the pinstripes of the old New York Highlanders. I'm talking about guys like Lou Gehrig, a native New Yorker who played 2,130 consecutive games at first base for the Yankees, and Babe Ruth, who hit most of his 714 home runs in the House that Ruth himself Built. Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Phil Rizzuto, Whitey Ford--all Yankee legends...
...hope all my colleagues from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida--anyone within a 1,000-mile radius of Manhattan who considers himself a New Yorker--enjoys the last seven games of the 2000 baseball season. I am ready to suffer through your happiness...