Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that The New Yorker isn't as good as it used to be, and is developing some perilous habits, requires arguing with success. The magazine's guaranteed circulation, now 480,000 copies a week, is the highest in its 55-year history. Securely fat and prosperous, The New Yorker is gaining advertising pages while many other major weeklies are not. In its lordly way, the magazine offers no special rates or short-term subscriptions, never invites the reader to "bill me later." Editorially, too, The New Yorker courts writers, not readers. Even the word reader-as in "Would...
...magazine in which the reader is only an onlooker has to be pretty special, and The New Yorker is. Too special for many, who dislike its cozy affectations and mannerisms. But those who do admire it, or who once did, regard it as the gathering place of the best writing and cartooning in America, a final arbiter of sophistication. With such feelings, the current magazine generates two kinds of strong responses: an admiration that comes close to uncritical leniency, or an angry sense of betrayal that it has become windier, more boring, less inspired and more complacent than it once...
does not draw blood, it is perhaps because Trillin, now a New Yorker staff writer, seems to be writing benevolently with his nose pressed against the office window, looking in. For good or ill, satire requires both savagery and familiarity. The amiable Trillin has been away too long to give the shiv a final twist...
...writer of the story was Jim Kelly, who spent a week driving around the Western states. A native New Yorker, Kelly dropped in on Steamboat Springs, Colo., where he had been a camp counselor ten years ago. "I found it nearly unrecognizable because of all the new housing developments," he says. "But elsewhere you can drive for hours and see hardly a soul." Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers, who will soon be leaving the U.S. to become senior correspondent in Europe, picked up a memento of the West's vast distances during his many long days reporting...
Armed with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of Latinisms, literary allusions and intricate analogies, the pugnaciously polysyllabic Buckley wrote almost half the magazine himself in those early days. He also sought out aspiring young writers, not all of them conservatives. New Yorker Writer Renata Adler published some of her first articles for N.R., as did Novelist Joan Didion, Syndicated Columnist Garry Wills and New York Times Critic John Leonard. Says Leonard, hired...