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Article: The New Yorker's Oh-So-Civilized Social Myopia
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- The Washington Post
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- April 14, 1999
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THE WORLD THROUGH A MONOCLE
The New Yorker at Midcentury
By Mary F. Corey
Harvard. 251 pp. $25.95
Over the years a great deal has been written about the New Yorker,
far too much of it from within: self-celebratory and self-
congratulatory if not outright smug, the most notable (and notorious)
example being Brendan Gill's hugely successful "Here at the New
Yorker," which more than any other book or article established and
institutionalized the myth of the magazine as a quaint and cozy club
inhabited by querulous but lovable eccentrics laboring in the cause
of literature and the higher journalism.
There was never much truth to this myth, and there cannot possibly
be any now, as the New Yorker ...