Word: yorkerism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
IRVING AND ME, by Syd Hoff (Harper & Row; $3.95). The adventures and mishaps that befall a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy when he moves to Florida. A good-humored novel by one of The New Yorker's cartoonists...
ARTHUR'S WORLD by Mischa Richter (Doubleday; $2.95). Arthur one day decides to see the world and proceeds to build an amazing watchtower in order to see over his backyard fence. His world, drawn by The New Yorker cartoonist, is both instructive and delightful...
...from it. "One of the rewards is that I can still be enthusiastic about movies after all these years," he says. But he would prefer to escape the daily grind and write about films and film makers at a more leisurely pace. Starting Jan. 1, 1968, when New Yorker Writer Renata Adler, 29, replaces him, he will do just that...
...Bryn Mawr graduate who went on to study comparative literature at Harvard and spent a year at the Sorbonne under the tutelage of Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, Renata Adler has written wryly and perceptively on a variety of subjects in her five years with The New Yorker: literary critics, group therapy, civil rights marchers, and New Leftists. But fertile as she has been in ideas, she felt she was running out of them, and so looks forward to the rigors of daily criticism. Her taste in movies is eclective: she professes to like westerns along with Fellini. There...
Divorced. J. D. Salinger, 48, solitary author, whose Glass family chronicles have been produced painfully and slowly (only one story in The New Yorker in the past eight years); by Claire Salinger, 33, his second wife; after twelve years of marriage, two children; in Newport, N.H. She charged treatment "to injure health and endanger reason" based on his indifference and refusal to communicate. He did not contest...