Emdashes—Modern Times Between the Lines

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Writers' homepages and blogs
Ken Auletta
Dan Baum
Andy Borowitz [The Borowitz Report]
Mark Danner
Matt Dellinger
Blake Eskin
Sasha Frere-Jones
Malcolm Gladwell [books]
Malcolm Gladwell [blog]
Ben Greenman
Jonathan Lethem
Austin Kelley
Margaret L. Knox
Patricia Marx [Huffington Post blog]
Rebecca Mead
Susan Orlean
Katha Pollitt
Richard Preston
Alex Ross [The Rest Is Noise]
Michael Specter

Publisher and organization bios
Donald Antrim [Random House]
Burkhard Bilger [Houghton Mifflin]
Katherine Boo [New America]
Justin Davidson [Pulitzer]
Alma Guillermoprieto [Radcliffe Institute]
Zadie Smith [British Council]
James Surowiecki [Random House]
Judith Thurman [Random House]
E.B. White [HarperCollins]

Interviews, reviews, papers, &c.
Burkhard Bilger [interview]
Pauline Kael [Salon]
John Seabrook [Booknoise]
Peter Schjeldahl [Blackbird interview]

Fan sites
Steve Martin [The Compleat Steve]
John O'Hara
John O'Hara

Other online resources
Original 1925 prospectus for The New Yorker
Jane Grant collection at the University of Oregon
J.D. Salinger's short story "Hapworth 16, 1924"
Herbert Warren Wind [obituaries]
"Protest at New Yorker Is Criticized," New York Times, January 16, 1987
"New Yorker Fiction, By the Numbers," New York Times, June 1, 2004
"Life Without Katharine: E. B. White and His Sense of Loss," New York Times, April 8, 1980

This list is, of course, incomplete. Please email me recommended links or corrections. Thanks!

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