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Filed under: Looked Into Tagged: Harold Ross, Jeffrey Toobin, John McPhee, John Updike, Lauren Collins, Tessa Hadley
Martin Schneider writes:
One of two things will happen: Either Twitter will gain sufficient acceptance that nobody will bother being annoyed it, or it'll stop being used enough to warrant any attention at all. In the meantime, some messages:
mldrabenstott @genmarshall A weekly New Yorker equals 6-8 monthly mags. Quality, not quantity.
ljhliesl I just put a lot of staples through the New Yorker so Blake could take them out again. He is a staple-remover and a confetti-maker.
youngamerican Can anyone deny that for the last two or three months, this has been the best part of each and every New Yorker? http://bit.ly/ofuim
BananaEsq The New Yorker consistently misuses the word "insure." Please stop.
splendid Weird: Marina showed 8-sec clip of artist performing by getting rifle shot in arm; get home, open New Yorker, see article about that artist
guttersniper Going to the John Updike tribute at the NYPL tonight. Expecting tweed.
MitMoi "Editing is the same as quarreling with writers - same thing exactly" Harold Ross: American Writer, New Yorker founder
LaurenProctor32 Lauren Collins' article in this week's New Yorker is wonderfully well written. She'll always be a favorite. [I think this was referring to the article about Bill Cunningham.]
dbrauer The New Yorker's partisan cover fetish has become boring.
mrcornie Reading short story in 3/23 New Yorker & it talks of Facebook & Wii. Fascinated when new-ish pop culture phenoms start showing up in my lit.
suzannegangi Asked w/utmost respect: How old is Mr. John McPhee, esteemed author & "New Yorker" contributor? He made la crosse(!) interesting (3/23 NYer) [I wrote back, informing her that McPhee had turned 78 about two weeks earlier.]
VelocityWong My fave part of the New Yorker's Burris piece is how almost every mention of an IL pol has a parenthetical epilogue about their crimes.
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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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