Article: Inside the New Yorker: two views

Inside the New Yorker: two views

By DAVID WALTON

Special to the Journal Sentinel

Sunday, February 13, 2000

Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker. By Renata Adler. Simon & Schuster. 252 pages. $25.

About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made. By Ben Yagoda. Scribner. 431 pages. $27.50.

There were, I would have said yesterday, only four books currently being published about the New Yorker, but today I heard about a fifth, a memoir by the son of former New Yorker columnist Janet Flanner's lover. There may be more.

This year is the New Yorker's 75th anniversary, and surely the nation's best and most durable literary magazine deserves two anthologies, two memoirs and a comprehensive history, ...

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