Word: yorkerism
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...nearly everything he's ever published and several things he hasn't. But the impossible happens. Amazon.com lists "Hapworth 16, 1924" as a book to be released in January of 1997 by Orchises Press, and even though I've read the story (it was originally published in The New Yorker in June of 1965), it's certainly not without significance. Salinger is among the most reclusive men in the universe. For a living writer whose works are admired by so many and who is often called one of the most important literary figures of the century, he only has four...
When this chapter of the novel appeared in the New Yorker last March, transatlantic eyebrows were raised, particularly after it became known that the real Paul Theroux had once actually attended a dinner given for the Queen. As a stand-alone piece in the New Yorker appearing under the rather puzzling rubric "Fact and Fiction," Theroux's account provoked justifiable confusion. In the context of My Other Life, though, the episode seems entirely consistent with the mildly plausible and cumulatively bizarre contents of the rest of the novel...
DIED. JOANNE DRU, 74, actress; of respiratory illness; in Beverly Hills, California. Dru starred in the classic westerns Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Wagon Master; in the early 1960s she played a New Yorker running a New Mexico dude ranch in the short-lived TV series Guestward...
...native New Yorker, and I've been riding the subways for years. Unlike Boston, New York's subways are open 24 hours a day, and crime in the subway system has plummeted to 1965 levels...
Gates, who writes six articles for The New Yorker each year, probably falls in the middle as a more public intellectual...