Word: yorkerism
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...When a New Yorker named James Brunot contacted Butts about mass-producing the game, he readily handed the operation over. Brunot's contributions were significant: he came up with the iconic color scheme (pastel pink, baby-blue, indigo and bright red), devised the 50-point bonus for using all seven tiles to make a word, and conceived the name "Scrabble." The first Scrabble factory was an abandoned schoolhouse in rural Connecticut, where Brunot and several gracious friends manufactured 12 games an hour. When the chairman of Macy's discovered the game on vacation and decided to stock his shelves with...
...card-carrying feminist, but I wanted to prove to myself that food and gender go together.” Despite the sub rosa discontent that pervaded the library in the early years of the collection, Haber persisted. In 2005, the Food Issue of The New Yorker credited Haber as having “invented the history of women and food,” and in 2007, when Drew G. Faust, then the Dean of Radcliffe, held a conference about Food and Gender, Haber knew the field had arrived.Despite the historically lukewarm reception of the culinary arts, many Harvard alumni have...
...years you held one of the great jobs in journalism: traveling the country, filing a long dispatch from a different place every three weeks for a New Yorker feature called "U.S. Journal." I'm curious how you picked your story topics when the possibilities were pretty much infinite...
...found myself in places where one part of society was rubbing up against another. And then sometimes I'd sort of feel worn down by controversies and murders, and I'd look for a light story about a crawfish festival, or something like that. I don't think [New Yorker editor William] Shawn ever said, "No, that's not right...
...working life, was a grocer in Kansas City. Why would anybody be interested in a Kansas City grocer to whom nothing really dramatic happened? Why would anybody want to read it? I only wrote the book about my wife after David Remnick, the [current] editor of the New Yorker, asked if I had ever thought about doing one. You're never quite sure what readers are going to take away from what you write. The book about my wife, to some people, was a book about love and marriage. I just wanted to write about my wife...