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Jonathan Taylor writes:
At the site of Britain's Royal Philharmonic Society, you can read Alex Ross's March 8 lecture, "Hold Your Applause: Inventing and Reinventing the Classical Concert."
At the New Yorker site, you can read Ross's 2008 piece on the subject, "Why So Serious?".
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Only in The New Yorker, Kids: The Tale of the Cunning Tailor
Filed under: Little Words Tagged: Amy Davidson, Close Read, Guantanamo, Rahm Emanuel
Jonathan Taylor writes:
At Close Read, Amy Davidson has the last word on the tall crop of Rahm Emanuel tales being told at various firesides:
Would the President's advisers really take pride in striking a deal to open a new Guantánamo? It's the sort of bargain a clever tailor in a fairy tale proposes to a bad elf.(continued)
Drawing Dilorom: The Roz Chast Cover I've Already Seen on the F Train
Filed under: Little Words Tagged: Elif Batuman, freemasons, Roz Chast
Jonathan Taylor writes:
At her website, Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, gives a little backstory on the development of the obviously fun cover by Roz Chast—and also links to a compilation of Masonic references in New Yorker cartoons (as of 2004).
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Peter Chang Coverage: Double Happiness
Filed under: Little Words Tagged: Calvin Trillin, David Remnick, Oxford American, Peter Chang.
Jonathan Taylor writes:
The Oxford American unleashes Chang, as G.H.W. Bush might say, with its own detailed story on Calvin Trillin's subject last of week—with a Remnick epigraph on the coincidence. (Via Tyler Cowen.)
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Three Cheers for Eighty-Five Years!
Filed under: Little Words Tagged: anniversaries, celebrations, David Remnick, Harold Ross, Jane Grant, Raoul Fleischmann, Rea Irvin, subscriptions
Emily Gordon writes:
We are celebrating. We hereby award the Jane Grant to Jane Grant, the Boss Hoss to Harold Ross, the Lei of Herbin to Rea Irvin, the Feast of Yeast to Raoul Fleischmann, and a vat of champagne (we mean Champagne) for the entire New Yorker staff of the present Golden Age.
You're a natty, brainy 85, New Yorker. If you make the yearly subscription $85 a year, we'll take it.
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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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