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Best of Emdashes: Hit Parade
A Web Comic: The Wavy Rule
Before it moved to The New Yorker:
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Features & Columns:
Headline Shooter
On the Spot
Looked Into
Sempé Fi: Cover Art
New Yorker-Related Books, Organizations, &c.
Filed under: Personal Tagged: Algonquin, Angela Bourke, Ben Yagoda, books, Brendan Gill, cartoons, chiasmus, Dale Kramer, David Remnick, Dorothy Parker, E.B. White, E.J. Kahn Jr., Harold Ross, Iain Topliss, Isabel Russell, James Thurber, Jane Grant, John Seabrook, Judith Yaross Lee, Katharine White, Lillian Ross, Linda H. Davis, Marion Meade, Mary F. Corey, Renata Adler, Robert Benchley, Thomas Kunkel, Ved Mehta, William Shawn
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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Hello! We're a small band of media enthusiasts, culture addicts, and journalists based in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Emdashes, formerly a New Yorker fan site, is our collection of conversations—mostly civilized—about magazines, movies, politics, design, punctuation, and other things that stir us.
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Dashes, some say, “are particularly useful in a sentence that is long and complex.” Emdashes—like an em dash itself—provides a thoughtful pause amid the hubbub.
Emdashes, founded in 2004, is written and drawn by Emily Gordon, Martin Schneider, Pollux, Jonathan Taylor, and Benjamin Chambers, as well as occasional guest contributors. All posts before October 2008 are by Emily Gordon.
The site was designed by House of Pretty with illustrations by Jesse R. Ewing.
Additional drawings are by Carolita Johnson and Pollux (author of our web comic, "The Wavy Rule"). The Emdashes pencil logo is by Jennifer Hadley, based on a 1943 Dorothy Gray ad.
Other writing by Emily Gordon
- Writing on theater: reviews (for Time Out Chicago; imperfect but workable search results)
- Profile: Valerie Casey, Designers Accord founder, is spearheading the design of sustainability (for SXSW World)
- Feature: Rea Irvin: visionary art director, bon vivant, New Yorker founding father (for Print)
- Slide show: the Coney Island Mermaid Parade (for NYCgo.com)
- Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
- Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Homage: Celebrating lindy-hop legend Frankie Manning (for NYCgo.com)
- Inquiry: 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)
- Interviews: four up-and-coming designers under 30 (for Print)
- Profile: novelist and dance critic Laura Jacobs (for Newsday)
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