The New Yorker
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The New Yorker is a long running and widely respected magazine (debuted on February 21, 1925), well known for its success at popularizing the short story as a literary form in English in the mid-20th century. The magazine also is known for its journalism -- John Hersey's Hiroshima filled an entire issue -- and for its criticism and essays, particularly the short "Talk of the Town" pieces. Some readers look only for the cartoons and short humorous pieces. Its long pieces are known for their rambling style that pays close attention to characters. Because of its quality and reputation The New Yorker has a wide audience outside of the city of New York.
The magazine's first cover, of a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle, was drawn by Rea Irvin, the magazine's first art editor, and is reproduced on anniversaries of the magazine's first publication.
The editor of The New Yorker is David Remnick. Previous editors have included Tina Brown, William Shawn and Harold Ross.
Contributors have included:
- Charles Addams - cartoonist
- Woody Allen - humorist
- Roger Angell, fiction editor and baseball writer
- Peter Arno - cartoonist
- Hannah Arendt - journalist
- Robert Benchley, humorist and theater critic
- Elizabeth Bishop - poet, essayist
- Sidney Blumenthal - editorialist
- Andy Borowitz - humorist
- George Booth - cartoonist
- Raymond Carver - short story writer
- John Cheever - short story writer
- John Collier - short story writer
- Joan Didion - essayist
- Mark Danner - foreign affairs correspondent
- E.L. Doctorow - fiction writer
- James Fallows - journalist
- Jules Feiffer - cartoonist
- Wolcott Gibbs - parodist, humorist, reviewer, and short story writer
- Adam Gopnik - journalist
- Philip Gourevitch - journalist
- Alma Guillermoprieto - journalist
- Emily Hahn - journalist
- Seymour Hersh - Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter
- Pauline Kael - film critic
- Alex Kozinski - essayist
- A.J. Liebling - journalism critic
- Janet Malcolm - essayist
- Don Marquis - cartoonist
- Steve Martin - humorist
- Bruce McCall - humorist, illustrator
- Susan Orlean - journalist
- Dorothy Parker - short story writer, drama critic, poet, humorist
- S.J. Perelman - humorist
- J. D. Salinger - short story writer
- Anne Sexton - poet
- Art Spiegelman - illustrator
- Saul Steinberg - illustrator
- James Thurber - cartoonist and essayist
- John Updike - fiction, essayist
- E. B. White - essayist and editor
- Edmund Wilson - literary critic
- James Woolcott - television critic
See also
- New Yorker
- Culture of New York City
- Essjay controversy
- List of The New Yorker contributors
- Media of New York City
- New Yorkistan
External links
- The New Yorker official website
- A Guided Tour Through The New Yorker
- CartoonBank.com archive of New Yorker covers and cartoons
- Cover gallery for The New Yorker
- "The Publication of Hiroshima in The New Yorker" by Steve Rothman (pdf)
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