Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
Along came Harold Ross, the demanding young editor of a new magazine called The New Yorker. White submitted pieces to the fledgling publication, one of which appeared in an early issue. Before long he was invited to take a staff position. Reluctant to report to any office on a fixed schedule, he nevertheless showed up for an interview. There he met Katharine Angell, the fiction editor. He remembered later that "she had a lot of black hair and the knack of making a young contributor feel at ease." He did not know at that moment that the course...
...Katharine fell in love and married, after her divorce, in 1929. They lived happily ever after until her death in 1977. He also joined The New Yorker and, along with Founding Editor Ross and Contributor James Thurber, gave the magazine its voice and character. White could do, and did, everything Ross wanted. He took over "Notes and Comment," the opening section of each week's "Talk of the Town." These paragraphs did not take political sides but mused, sometimes acerbically, on the passing scene. Using the editorial "we," White once described how this process worked: "We write as we please...
...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...