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...HAVE JUST HEARD FROM OUR OLD friend the Magazine Maven. "The NEW YORKER," he writes, "is the journalistic equivalent of a restaurant under new management. The new maitresse d' is Tina Brown, lately of Vanity Fair, where she offered a heady mix of roadhouse and haute cuisine. She has replaced Robert Gottlieb, whose fern-bar ambiance left customers hungry for less. Brown's detractors have been hoping for the souffles to fall and the drinks to be watered at Tina's Place, but her debut last week will disappoint them...
...John Updike, who has served under three New Yorker managements, contributes 'Playing with Dynamite,' a poignant tale of aging in the '90s. Its last six words might describe the current situation at the New Yorker: '. . . between chaos and an airier pantheon.' It is too early for a prediction, but I'd bet pantheon...
However, Southerners are not alone. Stuffed-up yawning Northerners have been moping around campus as well. Elizabeth S. Ratner '96, a New Yorker, says she was alerted to her ill status by swollen glands and a sore throat. "It's been pretty static and is peaking right now at a pretty low level of congestion," Ratner says...
Kincaid, 43, is the author of the 1983 novel Annie John and the much praised story collection, At the Bottom of the River. She remains a frequent contributor to The New Yorker...
...melancholy undertow. Mitchell's home base recently underwent its own convulsive change of management. There remains the hope that an improvement is in the wind. Failing that, Up in the Old Hotel will not only celebrate a New York that is gone. It will also recall a New Yorker that, like so many of the people Mitchell interviewed two generations ago, exists only as a wistful memory...