Letters from the Editor: The New Yorker's Harold Ross (Modern Library Paperbacks)
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (511 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375756949 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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It's the other way around with me. The fizzing communiqués collected in Letters from the Editor begin when he was a serviceman in France during World War I, and from the start his impulses were comedic. Here was an editor who was concerned with every level of the magazine: he kept a card catalog with story ideas but was equally obsessed with language, commas, typos, and even the vexed question of large or small capital letters. "Don't waste your time and words on letters," Harold Ross cautioned more than one writer. I don't think it's possible to edit a magazine by 'doping out' y
MY PROBLEM COMPLETELY Sagesmoke I LOVE Harold Ross. I LOVE Thomas Kunkel! I thought "Genius in Disguise" was a masterpiece, and couldn't wait to get ahold if "Letters from the Editor". I am ashamed to admit I am disappointed, and it's completely my faultRoss is terrific, Kunkel's editing is brilliant, I knew it would be just notes, letters, responses, etc. from/by Ross.but when I began to read them I realized it wasn't working for meI needed the other side of the correspondenceor at least a little more 'context' by Mr. Kunkel. It just felt incomplete and frustrating. The only reason I'm revealing m. An Entertaining Literary Anthology, Laugh Out Loud Funny Richard E. Hegner Even more than Kunkel's brilliant biography "Genius in Disguise," this book offers special insights into "New Yorker" founder and editor Harold Ross, not only a seminal figure in American letters but a sardonic wit reminiscent of H.L. Mencken, one of the people with whom he frequently exchanged letters. (Indeed, the sweep of his correspondence, from "New Yorker" stalwarts like E.B. White and his wife Katherine to Dorothy Parker and James Thurber all the way to John O'Hara, Harpo Marx, various state governors and other polticos, President Truman, and Premier Nehru, is. Alive in His Letters These letters were my companion as I read "Genius in Disguise", Kunkel's wonderful biography of Harold Ross. The biography tells the story of Ross and his founding and development of The New Yorker. These letters bring Ross to life and convey the personality that spotted and nurtured the talent that made the magazine great. Here's a quick letter to John Cheever in 19Alive in His Letters Ethan Cooper These letters were my companion as I read "Genius in Disguise", Kunkel's wonderful biography of Harold Ross. The biography tells the story of Ross and his founding and development of The New Yorker. These letters bring Ross to life and convey the personality that spotted and nurtured the talent that made the magazine great. Here's a quick letter to John Cheever in 1947, which gives a little flavor of the man:"Dear Cheever: I've just read "The Enormous Radio," having gone away for a spell and got behind, and I send my respects and admiration. The piece is worth coming. 7, which gives a little flavor of the man:"Dear Cheever: I've just read "The Enormous Radio," having gone away for a spell and got behind, and I send my respects and admiration. The piece is worth coming
Ross worries about everything from keeping track of office typewriters to the magazine's role in wartime to the exact questions to be asked for a "Talk of the Town" piece on the song "Happy Birthday." We find Ross, in Kunkel's words, "scolding Henry Luce, lecturing Orson Welles, baiting J. These exhilarating letters—selected and introduced by Thomas Kunkel, who wrote Genius in Disguise, the distinguished Ross biography—tell the dramatic story of the birth of The New Yorker and its precarious early days and years. Edgar Hoover, inviting Noel Coward and Ginger Rogers to the circus, wheedling Ernest Hemingway— offering to sell Harpo Marx a used car and James Cagney a used tractor, and explaining to restaurateur-to-the-stars Dave Chasen, step by step, how to smoke a turkey." These letters from a supreme editor tell in his own words the story of the fierce, lively man who launched the world's most prestigious magazin