E.B. White And James Thurber Sitting On Some Steps In Sneden’s Landing Above: a 1829 map showing Sneden’s Landing (just “Landing” in those days) at the top left to the west of the Hudson River. Scott Elledge’s wonderful E.B. White biography (published in 1984) includes a 1929 photograph showing E.B. White and James Thurber sitting on some steps. The photo
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Birthday: A Basic Library If you’re interested in The New Yorker‘s beginnings, there are a number of books around that make for great reading. Whenever I’m presented with a head-scratcher of a question about the magazine’s infancy, I make the rounds looking for a full picture (in other words, I don’t rely on just one
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary We would have to assume that one hundred years ago this week, Harold Ross was sitting with, at the least, a fairly complete “dummy” of, or perhaps an early run copy of the very first issue of his new magazine, The New Yorker — maybe (likely!) putting some final touches on it. In
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Book on The Horizon: E.B. White New York Sketches New York Sketches, From McNally Editions, out this December 4th. From the publisher’s text: New York Sketches, the first collection of his casual pieces about the city, White ranges at whim from the nesting habits of pigeons to the aisles of a calculator trade-show on Eighth Avenue,
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