Word: yorkerism
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Sources: New York Times (2); PCWorld; New Yorker; Reuters; Guardian...
...recalling the '60s and '70s, Martin writes revealingly of his sex life (busy) and his drug life (not so much). But the most poignant passages touch on his estrangement from his father and their reconciliation at the elder man's deathbed. "When I published that part in the New Yorker," Martin says, "I got a great letter from a woman. She said, 'I read your article about your father, and I gave it to my husband, and he read it and didn't say anything. And then he said to me, What's our son's phone number...
Kathleen Spivack has been recognized as one of the foremost poets of her generation. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and her work has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker and Harper’s. “Moments of Happiness,” her first poetry collection since 1986’s “The Beds We Lie In,” was released on Nov. 10, exclusively through Cambridge’s Grolier Poetry Book Shop. The Harvard Crimson: This is your first book since 1986—that?...
...There is an appetite for this stuff,” said Toobin, who graduated from the Law School in 1986 and is a CNN legal correspondent and New Yorker staff writer...
...some of the best prose of the twentieth century. They face a unique challenge in trying to represent in words experiences that are primarily smell- and taste-oriented. Laurie Colwin, a little-known author who, during her short life, published a few novels and several stories in the New Yorker, is one of the great American food writers. This summer, working three jobs to make rent and reduced to herbivory, I would open up “Home Cooking,” Colwin’s masterpiece. My personal favorite text over the summer was a chapter analyzing the intricacies...