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Article: Tales from the crypt.(The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine)(Video recording review)
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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When word arrived last autumn that The New Yorker was releasing a deluxe boxed CD set of every issue of the magazine published since its monocled dandy espied a butterfly on the cover of the February 21, 1925 debut, my first thought was: "Happy-doodle-day!" (1) That may speak to a certain lack of excitement in my life, but for a magazine junkie, this was the mother lode, the treasure of the Sierra Madre. Never again would I haunt the flea markets for back issues from the 1930s and 1940s, hoping to luck into a John O'Hara story I hadn't read before, or a sporty Peter Arno cover. Professionally, it was also a must-have. For journalists, researchers, historians, educators, ...