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- catalog abstract ""About Town tells fascinating story of how a tiny humor magazine, founded in the Jazz Age on champagne vapors, grew into a literary enterprise of epic proportion. Ben Yagoda is the first author to make extensive use of the New Yorker's archives, which were donated to the New York Public Library in 1991. Illuminated by interviews with more than fifty people, including the late Joseph Mitchell, William Steig, Roger Angell, Calvin Trillin, Pauline Kael, John Updike, and Ann Beattie, About Town penetrates the inner workings of the New Yorker as no other book has done."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11517144.
- catalog coverage "United States New York New York.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""About Town tells fascinating story of how a tiny humor magazine, founded in the Jazz Age on champagne vapors, grew into a literary enterprise of epic proportion. Ben Yagoda is the first author to make extensive use of the New Yorker's archives, which were donated to the New York Public Library in 1991. Illuminated by interviews with more than fifty people, including the late Joseph Mitchell, William Steig, Roger Angell, Calvin Trillin, Pauline Kael, John Updike, and Ann Beattie, About Town penetrates the inner workings of the New Yorker as no other book has done."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-453) and index.".
- catalog description "Our far-flung correspondence -- Metropolitan life, 1919-25 -- Hard questions, 1925-31 -- Lowlife ascendant, 1931-41 -- Sophistication and its discontents, 1938-51 -- The bland leading the bland, 1952-62 -- A time of tumult, 1962-71 -- "Love is the essential word," 1972-87 -- The years with Gottlieb, Brown, and Remnick, 1987-99.".
- catalog extent "478 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "About town.".
- catalog identifier "0684816059".
- catalog isFormatOf "About town.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, NY : Scribner,".
- catalog relation "About town.".
- catalog spatial "United States New York New York.".
- catalog subject "051/.09/04 21".
- catalog subject "New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925) History.".
- catalog subject "PN4900.N35 Y34 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Our far-flung correspondence -- Metropolitan life, 1919-25 -- Hard questions, 1925-31 -- Lowlife ascendant, 1931-41 -- Sophistication and its discontents, 1938-51 -- The bland leading the bland, 1952-62 -- A time of tumult, 1962-71 -- "Love is the essential word," 1972-87 -- The years with Gottlieb, Brown, and Remnick, 1987-99.".
- catalog title "About town : The New Yorker and the world it made / Ben Yagoda.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".