Writing for the New Yorker - by Fiona M Green (Hardcover)

About the Book

This collection of newly commissioned critical essays reads across and between New Yorker departments, from sports writing to short stories, cartoons to reporters at large, poetry to annals of business.

Book Synopsis

This collection of newly commissioned critical essays reads across and between New Yorker departments, from sports writing to short stories, cartoons to reporters at large, poetry to annals of business.

From the Back Cover

'Writing for The New Yorker is a rich and fascinating book that will receive considerable attention not only amongst academics, but also in the wider intellectual world.' Professor Andrew Thacker, Professor of English Literature, Nottingham Trent University Original critical essays on an iconic American periodical, providing new insights into twentieth-century literary culture This collection of newly commissioned critical essays reads across and between New Yorker departments, from sports writing to short stories, cartoons to reporters at large, poetry to annals of business. Attending to the relations between these kinds of writing and the magazine's visual and material constituents, the collection examines the distinctive ways in which imaginative writing has inhabited the 'prime real estate' of this enormously influential periodical. In bringing together a range of sharply angled analyses of particular authors, styles, columns and pages, this book offers multiple perspectives on American writing and periodical culture at specific moments in twentieth-century history. Key Features - Eleven new perspectives on major American writers, including Roth, Cheever, Plath, and Updike, in relation to their first publication contexts - Reconsiders modern and contemporary American writing and periodical culture, focusing critical attention on commercially successful 'smart' magazines - Draws on new research in The New Yorker's manuscript and digital archives - A distinctive combination of close critical reading and cultural analysis Fiona Green is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College.

Review Quotes

...conspicuously well-written and a pleasure to read.--Jason Harding, Durham University "The Review of English Studies"

'Writing for The New Yorker is a rich and fascinating book that will receive considerable attention not only amongst academics, but also in the wider intellectual world.'Professor Andrew Thacker, Professor of English Literature, Nottingham Trent University-- "Andrew Thacker, Professor of English Literature, Nottingham Trent University"

About the Author

Fiona Green is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College. Her recent publications include 'Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Village" in The New Yorker, ' Critical Quarterly 52.2, 2010, 31-46; her review essay of Bishop's Correspondence with The New Yorker was the TLS lead article (15 April 2011).