Article: A COURT OF NO APPEAL.(New York Times coverage of 'Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker')

How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times

In January of this year, Simon & Schuster published my book Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker. I had been at The New Yorker since 1963--with an absence of about fourteen months, during which I was Bosley Crowther's successor as the film critic of the New York Times. Although I had written for other publications, I thought I knew the magazine pretty well. The New Yorker, I wrote, is dead. I did not expect everyone to agree or to welcome my account of what happened to the magazine. Perhaps not surprisingly, the colleagues whom I had loved and admired through the years tended to share my views. Those of whom I ...

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