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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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Some writing by Emily Gordon

Review: A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (for Newsday)
Annotated slide show: a wet, festive 2009 Coney Island Mermaid Parade (for nycgo.com)
Proposal: A better-looking MetroCard (for A Brief Message)
Feature: Muslim immigration iconography in the Netherlands, and an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (for Print)
Review: Does a redesign of The New Republic mean a change of tune? (for Print)
Interview: four online obsessives and visual cataloguers, Kate Bingaman, Nicholas Felton, Ellie Harrison, and John D. Freyer (for Print)
Review: King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
Interviews: winning New Visual Artists Eleanor Grosch, Zigmunds Lapsa, Christian Cervantes, and Kate & Camilla (for Print)
Profile: lindy hop legend Frankie Manning (for Newsday, with Robert Fouch)
Feature: Rea Irvin, illustrator, bon vivant, and The New Yorker's first art director (for Print)
Profile: screenwriter and novelist Joe Keenan (for Newsday)
Review: My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (for Newsday)
Review: Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley (for Newsday)
Review: Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry (for Print)
Report: Learning to read with comic books edited by Françoise Mouly (for Print)
Report: The New Yorker's redesigned website (for Print)
Interview: James Surowiecki on what's next for the wisdom of crowds (for Assignment Zero)
Review: The Complete New Yorker (for Print)
Interview: Matthew Diffee on the appropriately inappropriate cartoons of the The Rejection Collection (for Print)
Interview: Roz Chast on Brooklyn, pysanky eggs, and animation (for Newsday)
Review: books about various New Yorker cartoonists by Liza Donnelly and Iain Topliss (for Newsday)
Review: Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis (for Newsday)
Interview: Edward Gorey (for Newsday)

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