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Books
New Yorker collections [Cartoon Bank]
About the New Yorker and Me: A Sentimental Journey [E.J. Kahn]
About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made [Ben Yagoda]
A Life of Privilege, Mostly [Gardner Botsford]
At Seventy: More about the New Yorker and Me [E.J. Kahn]
The Comic Worlds of Peter Arno, William Steig, Charles Addams, and Saul Steinberg [Iain Topliss]
Defining New Yorker Humor [Judith Yaross Lee]
Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons [Liza Donnelly]
Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the New Yorker [Thomas Kunkel]
Gone: The Last Days of the New Yorker [Renata Adler]
Here at The New Yorker [Brendan Gill]
Here But Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and the New Yorker [Lillian Ross]
Katharine and E.B. White: An Affectionate Memoir [Isabel Russell]
Letters From the Editor: The New Yorker’s Harold Ross [Thomas Kunkel]
New Yorker Profiles 1925-1992: A Bibliography [compiled by Gail Shivel]
Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture [John Seabrook]
Onward and Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White [Linda H. Davis]
Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker [Angela Bourke]
The Portable Dorothy Parker [Marion Meade, editor]
Remembering Mr. Shawn’s New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing [Ved Mehta]
Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker [David Remnick]
Ross and the New Yorker [Dale Kramer]
Ross, the New Yorker and Me [Jane Grant]
The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury [Mary F. Corey]
The Years With Ross [James Thurber]
Organizations
The Robert Benchley Society
Nathaniel Benchley [Grandson, wit]
The Dorothy Parker Society
Thurber House
The Algonquin Hotel & Round Table
The Algonquin Round Table
The Algonquin’s Oak Room
Algonquin Hotel, Wikipedia
Portraits of Algonquin folks
Algonquin-related links
Matilda, Algonquin hotel cat [NPR]
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Emdashes, founded in 2004, is currently written and drawn by Emily Gordon, Martin Schneider, Pollux, Jonathan Taylor, and Benjamin Chambers, as well as occasional guest contributors. (Unsigned posts through October 2008 are by Emily Gordon.)
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Other writing by Emily Gordon
- Profile: Valerie Casey, Designers Accord founder, is spearheading the design of sustainability (for SXSW World; PDF, p. 20)
- Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, man about town, and New Yorker founding father (for Print)
- Report: Learning to read with comic books--that are edited by Françoise Mouly (for Print)
- Interview: Designer Eleanor Grosch (for Print)
- Proposal: a better-designed Metrocard (for A Brief Message)
- Review: Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis (for Newsday)
- Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Review: Does a New Republic redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
- Report: Eustace Tilley spruces up for The New Yorker's website redesign (for Print)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
- Micro-essay: on saving time through inspiration (for A Brief Message)
- Review: books about various New Yorker cartoonists by Liza Donnelly and Iain Topliss (for Newsday)
- Profile: screenwriter and novelist Joe Keenan (for Newsday)
- Review: The Complete New Yorker (for Print)
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