Word: yorkerism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Intense Identification? Tynan had been bothered by the book before it was published (it was serialized in The New Yorker). He had expressed his disapproval to Capote when the two men met at parties and when Capote appeared on Tynan's TV program in London. He repeated his objections in his review. In Cold Blood, said Tynan, seemed callously indifferent to the fate of the criminals it scrutinized. Capote probably could have produced enough evidence to show that the two men were insane and might have saved them from hanging. But he did not bother to search...
Since 1952, Malamud has write five books. His most recent novel, Idiots First, was first published in 1963. Two years before he wrote A New Life, a story about a New Yorker teaching in the West. In 1958, Malamud's Magic Barrel, a book of short stories about Jews searching for a lost past, won the National Book Award. The Natural, a book about a baseball player, appeared in 1952, and was followed in 1957 by The Assistant, a novel about a shoemaker...
...Yorker review by Louise Bogan is perhaps the most dangerous, since it comes from someone who should know better. "Berryman is out to get language itself, to distort and maim it, not in the direction of wit but in the direction of funny grammar and burnt-cork comedy." She accuses him of "pulling human speech toward some totally disjunct and invertebrate set of noises." Such a reaction betrays a tin ear and a wooden sense of humor, for the dream songs may be one of the more successful experiments with wit in the language. The poem, taken as the whole...
...Walter Kerr, kept nudging her husband while the performance was going on-the implication being that Walter's reviews reflected Jean's opinions. Sometimes, without bothering to explain the joke, he has secretly decorated his enemies with insulting little signs. Only last week, after years of resenting The New Yorker magazine's theater reviews, he inserted an advertisement in which the first let ters of each line form an acrostic that sort of makes a monkey out of the magazine that printed...
Only a few young writers--Miss Bingham, Nemerov, Margaret Hambrecht, Sidney Goldfarb '64--have written here with originality or freshness. While Advocate editors have become more aware of the professionals writing today, its writers have confined themselves to two shoddy genres developed by the New Yorker: the "my childhood with snakes in Ceylon" and the "my coming of age in squalid surroundings" genres. Advocate poets not only write imitation Ginsberg and pseudo-Lowell these days; they all write about pigeons...