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Article: Yes, the New Yorker. (Tina Brown named new editor; American Survey)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 4, 1992
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AMERICAN publishing's game of musical chairs has started up again. With the startling announcement that Tina Brown, editor of the glitz-and-glory Vanity Fair, would be replacing Robert Gottlieb as editor of the New Yorker, the familiar nepotistic circle of friends, reviewers and sponsors cranked into motion once more. The surprise was really no surprise at all.
All the same, it was a strange literary marriage. Over its 67 years, the New Yorker has become the embodiment of literary probity among magazines, publishing new fiction (John Cheever got his start there) and extraordinarily long, multi-part articles on such subjects as geology or politics, while shrewdly ...