Writing for The New Yorker ─ Critical Essays on an American Periodical

Original critical essays on an iconic American periodical, providing new insights into twentieth-century literary culture

This collection of newly commissioned critical essays reads across and between New Yorker departments, from sports writing to short stories, cartoons to reporters at large, poetry to annals of business. Attending to the relations between these kinds of writing and the magazine's visual and material constituents, the collection examines the distinctive ways in which imaginative writing has inhabited the 'prime real estate' of this enormously influential periodical. In bringing together a range of sharply angled analyses of particular authors, styles, columns, and pages, this book offers multiple perspectives on American writing and periodical culture at specific moments in twentieth-century history.

Fiona Green is a Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College. Her recent publications include 'Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Village" in The New Yorker,' Critical Quarterly 52.2, 2010, 31-46; her review essay of Bishop's Correspondence with The New Yorker was the TLS lead article (15 April 2011).