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Enthusiastically admired by his academic colleagues, Menand, who was unavailable for comment, is a frequent contributor to such popular forums as the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. His book The Metaphysical Club, published in the summer of 2001, earned glowing praise from accomplished scholars and casual readers alike for its portrait of a loose group of American intellectuals after the Civil War—including such luminaries-to-be as Henry and William James and Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...fame—a fame which extends to Harvard’s students as well as its top English faculty. Among hundreds of publications and press mentions in the last five years, Menand published “The Thin Envelope” in the pages of the New Yorker this April...
...ever seen," wrote a Massachusetts reader. Others, perhaps a bit defensive about the the current slate of Democratic candidates, wanted to turn the tables. "I look forward to a future issue of TIME examining 'Why They Don't Make Republicans Like They Used To,'" wrote a New Yorker. "The cover should be graced by a picture of Abraham Lincoln...
...profile written for the New Yorker by David L. Owen ’78, who knew Meyer during their years at Harvard, describes Meyer’s labors in that place which “Simpsons” writers know as “the room”—the Fox offices where rough drafts of episodes are painstakingly revised into hilarity...
...city-savvy New Yorker, educated at the Upper West Side’s elite Trinity School and once so proficient at the piano that he lied about his age so he could play the storied Jimmy Ryan’s jazz club when he was 15 years old, has spent almost his entire adult life in horse racing...