Word: yorkerism
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...institution as stable and tradition-bound as Harvard Law School suddenly found its way into the holy trinity of the media--The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time magazine? Public attention has focused on the "academic feud" between conservative and radical faculty members that has shaken the foundations of the Law School. Cited as the cause of the battle are the self-styled "unholy triumvirate" of professors Duncan Kennedy, Morton Horwitz, and Roberto Unger, and the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement they helped start...
There are numerous other misstatements about Wilkinson in Nick Wurf's review. His opinion of Moonshine seems to stem more from his fantasies about The New Yorker than the book itself. Amie Wilkinson...
Anywhere but talking to The New Yorker...
...Yorker must have taught Wilkinson not to mess with success--why else would he use two two-syllable, nine-letter m-titles for his first two books? John McPhee has been writing about the same slice-of-life for all these years--why shouldn't Wilkinson...
...competence at The New Yorker eventually bored him. In 1938, he and Katharine moved to a 40-acre farm in North Brooklin, on the Maine seacoast. Ross was flabbergasted by the desertion of his most valuable player: "He just sails around in some God damn boat." Farming and rural life enchanted White, although he wrote Thurber in 1938, "I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens." He kept tending to both, writing a monthly column called "One Man's Meat" for Harper's magazine between 1938 and 1943. He continued to contribute to The New Yorker...