Word: yorkerism
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...submitted to it, he says e knows that many of the other poems that the magazine rejected ware very good. "People came up to me complaining that their work hadn't been published in the Advocate. And I want to say, 'Why didn't you submit to the New Yorker?Maybe that was your mistake...
...cavalier about the literary establishment outside of Harvard as he is about the one inside. He sometimes preaches something close to literary revolution. "Don't we have to change [the establishment]?" he asks me. "Then don't worry about it. Even if we were all published in the New Yorker, would that be the point? You're missing the point if it's a new driver driving the same old truck. you can do alternative thing and have them be accepted, not necessarily by other people, but by yourself." Kevin was a member of Padan Aram poetry board...
...unwed mothers, though Murphy Brown had at least one important precursor. Molly Dodd, the neurotic single New Yorker played by Blair Brown in The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, found herself pregnant two years ago, and the suspense revolved around which boyfriend was the father: the white bookstore owner or the black policeman (the law carried the day). Yet the revelation caused little stir: the show was tucked away on cable, and went off the air shortly thereafter. It took a Top 10 network series that will undoubtedly be around for years to grab the Vice President's attention...
...beginning, regardless of bloodlines or station in life -- is most likely to be kept. That promise, however, is not fulfilled in the "when you wish upon a star" myth; it is fulfilled by the Okie strawberry picker who survived the Depression and bought a farm, by the New Yorker who built a chain of car washes, by the Vietnamese refugee who worked his or her way through Cal State Long Beach and became a physicist. In stressing its most trivial and least typical aspects, we miss the lessons that L.A. has to teach about how modern urban societies should...
HERE, IN THE PARLANCE OF HOLlywood, is a high-concept idea. Bill McKibben, a contributor to the New Yorker and author of The End of Nature, decided to take a look at what television tells us -- and doesn't tell us -- about the world we live in. So he set up two representative days. For one 24-hour period, he taped and watched every minute of programming (more than 2,000 hours' worth) on all 93 channels in the Fairfax County, Va., cable system. On the other day, he lolled around a pond and did some hiking in the Adirondack...