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Article: Cashing in on New Yorker cache
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 19, 1999
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Ian Shapira is a Globe correspondent. He writes from Louisville,
Ky.
If The New Yorker's readers, as well as its writers, disdain
celebrity fluff, they certainly do not seem to mind hype about the
magazine. Books, essays, and memoirs all are part of a lucrative
publishing vein that has produced 10 such works since the magazine's
inception nearly 75 years ago.
Recently, the volume of these books has picked up. Two New Yorker
writers last summer spent a combined 650 pages contemplating their
lives with former editor William Shawn. Add to that Harvard
University Press's new academic book, "The World Through a Monocle"
by UCLA history professor Mary Corey, which examines how and why the
magazine ...