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Name: About Town
Author: Ben Yagoda

Ben Yagoda’s *About Town* is a detailed history of the New Yorker, beginning with its humble origins in the Jazz Age. The book makes extensive use of the magazine’s archives, donated to the New York Public Library in 1991, and is illuminated by interviews with over fifty notable figures, including Joseph Mitchell, William Steig, Roger Angell, Calvin Trillin, Pauline Kael, John Updike, and Ann Beattie. Through these firsthand accounts, Yagoda explores how the New Yorker evolved into a literary institution of epic proportion, revealing the inner workings of the publication in ways no previous study has done.

First publish date: 2000

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Ben Yagoda

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