Peter Steiner: The Ink Spill Interview

I first met Peter Steiner in 1984 at an impromptu party thrown the night of The New Yorker’s annual anniversary bash (at the Pierre on the corner of 5th Avenue at 59th Street). Following the festivities in the hotel’s grand ballroom, a bunch of cartoonists made their way west to the other side of Central Park to a much smaller

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The Lull In Traffic That Saved The New Yorker

                    In the early 1925, when The New Yorker was just a few months old (its first issue was dated February 21, 1925) its main financial backer, Raoul Fleischmann decided to shut it down. If readership is a measure of success, the magazine was a failure. At 11:00 on a Friday

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