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What Newhouse has been unhappy about lately is the New Yorker magazine, which he bought for $168 million in 1985. In 1987 he touched off a staff insurrection when he ousted William Shawn, the 79-year-old icon who had ruled the legendary magazine for 35 years, to bring in his own editor, Robert Gottlieb, former president of Knopf publishers (another Newhouse enterprise). But the evolution he demanded of Gottlieb did not happen. The magazine lost at least $10 million last year, a significant sum even to Newhouse. Circulation, which had been boosted to 632,000 at considerable cost...
...Newhouse moved again, in an editorial blitz that caused a sensation in the media world when it was revealed last week. He forced Gottlieb, 61, to resign in order to make way for the most unlikely editor the New Yorker has ever had: Tina Brown, 38, who arrived in the U.S. from her native Britain in 1984 and promptly transformed Newhouse's Vanity Fair from a faltering revival into the "hot book" of the magazine trade...
...Ashvin is sophisticated and marvelously humane." -New Yorker...
Professor of English Marjorie Garber, a Shakespeare expert and cultural critic, is a frequent contributor to The New York Times. Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler, an unparalleled expert on poetry, writes for the New Yorker and other publications...
...member of the Lampoon, Updike graduatedsumma cum laude from Harvard in 1954. Hewrote for the New Yorker from 1955 to 1957and published his first novel...