Emdashes. The New Yorker between the lines
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Looked Into
The last time we advertised for an intern, we got the incredibly talented John Bucher, who did his noble service and is now a contributing writer. I have no doubt he'll go far.
Now, however, we must look to the future. If you're a serious reader of The New Yorker, have a solid grasp of and appreciation for English syntax and punctuation, know at least enough HTML to get by, and have a bit of experience with blogging (even if you're just an avid reader of blogs), and would like an unpaid but often entertaining position learning more about all of the above and doing some research and writing, please get in touch with Emily care of emdashes.com. You need not live in New York, but it would be a plus if you did.
Who we?
Emdashes, founded December 2004, is a place where keen and dedicated readers of The New Yorker, past and present, can find related news and commentary: about people, subjects, and ideas within the magazine, and events and conversations outside its pages. Learn more about us and our contributors.
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A few clips
- Report: Learning to read with comic books edited by Françoise Mouly (for Print)
- Interview: Designer Eleanor Grosch (for Print)
- Review: Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis (for Newsday)
- Review: The King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game by Paul Hoffman (for Newsday)
- Review: Does The New Republic's recent redesign mean a change of tune? (for Print)
- Proposal: A more attractive MetroCard (for A Brief Message)
- 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 (for Print)
- 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)
Tell me more
They say that dashes “are particularly useful in a sentence that is long and complex.” Emdashes—like em dashes—emphasizes what’s between: in particular, between the lines, covers, and issues of a magazine close to my heart.
Primary sources
The New Yorker
Events listed by the magazine
Web resources: New Yorker writers and artists
Books, Organizations, &c.
Founded by Emily Gordon, edited by Martin Schneider, designed by Pretty, and illustrated by Inkleaf. Additional drawings by Carolita Johnson. Kissable pencil girl by Jennifer Hadley, based on a 1943 Dorothy Gray ad.
The Rossosphere
- Resistance Is Fertile
- Mick Stevens: I Really Should Be Drawing
- Cartoonist Michael Maslin's homepage
- Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
- Sasha Frere-Jones
- Matthew Diffee's HuffPo blog
- The New Yorker Magazine in the 1930s
- The essential Jane Grant
- Paul Noth's Pale Force
- The New York Public Library records
- New Yorker Comment
- Chiasmus in The New Yorker
- Wikipedia: The New Yorker
- New Yorker database
- The New Orcer
- Silence of the City
- Between the Squibs
- Blog About Town
- Newyorkette
- New Yorker Anti-Caption Contest
- The New Yorker Forums
- I Hate the New Yorker
- Ben Yagoda's homepage
- Access My Library
- New Yorker haiku
- Modern Spectator
- Map: Caption Contest Winners
- Technorati: New Yorker
- Link to suggest? Email it!
Comments
For what it's worth, I heartily recommend Emdashes as an internship destination. I'd be inclined to do it again, but I'm now working as a digital editor, a job for which the internship was fine preparation.
More than it is great line on your CV (which it is), Emdashes is a place to get edited by Emily, who's got a feel for and interest in writing like few people around.
John, you're a peach. And look at you—you're a big success now! I won't take credit, since it's all due to your natural gifts.
And this is a good opportunity to say that I'm only accepting applications for one more day, through May 15, because I've received a bunch of terrific ones already, and accepted more than one intern for the summer. So, last chance is tomorrow, Thursday, and I look forward to hearing from you, future (if you're really good) John Buchers!