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About New Yorker & Me; A sentiental Journal
About New Yorker Me A sentiental Journal Author:E. J. Kahn, Jr. E.J. Kahn, Jr., the clebrated New Yorker writer, has written a witty, literate, and marevlously entertaining memoir on the form of a journal spanning the year 1977. A veteran of forty years and, by his own account, some two-and-a-half million words, E.J. Kahn has seen it all at The New Yorker, from the days of Ross to the gossip about Bill Shawn... more »'s successor. But though his byline is like a familiar old friend to regular readers of the magazine, the man behind the byline, true to the traditions of the place, has seldome been "seen" in public. In this sense, the "me" of About The New Yorker And Me is one of this books happiest surprises, in which the wit and urbane intelligence one felt only obliquely in the magazine come strongly and naturally forth in informational self=portraiture.« less