Word: yorkerism
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...characters' own musings on art and literature occasionally sound as pretentious or ridiculous as the New Yorker at its worst--("Art was a process of conversion, a machine that could turn even garbage into something clean and glistening...
...armchair baseball fan, no one's sinecure in life is more enviable than Roger Angell's. From his comfortable niche in The New Yorker's "Sporting Scene" section, Angell turns out three well-crafted essays a year on the goings-on in major league baseball and spends the rest of his time making his rounds--down south for the exhibition season, a couple of mid-season jaunts to check out this year's contenders and non-contenders, and finally, to the playoffs and the World Series...
...editor at The New Yorker (where most of the 16 pieces originally appeared), Angell is a formidable humorist. Yet he sees all the current tinkering with baseball as no laughing matter. He imagines a time when the World Series will be totally surrendered to television, transported to some domed stadium, and made the excuse for a week of canned spectaculars. If network and baseball moguls have not already dreamed up this plan, they will now. Angell protests: "We are trying to conserve something that seems as intricate and lovely to us as any river valley...
...prismatic story of an artist with agoraphobia, or Searching for Caleb (1975), a Baltimore family's hunt for a long-missing relative. Most of her books will be available in paperback editions this year. For the impatient, her short stories irregularly appear in magazines (The New Yorker, Redbook, McCall's). Like such writers as John Cheever and Edna O'Brien, Tyler is fortunately unable to sit still between novels...
...Allen set up housekeeping in New York City, and she went on to star in the movie version of Sam, as well as two subsequent Allen films, Sleeper and Love and Death. Aside from the mutual jitters, it was a case of opposites attracting: he was a stereotypical New Yorker and she was a model Southern Californian. "When I first met her," Allen remembers, "she was a real hayseed, the kind who would chew eight sticks of gum at a time. I talked to her on the phone once when she was in California, and she was about to drive...