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Here are the professional and personal lives of the pioneers of an enduring magazine.
The "New Yorker," from its inception in 1925 to the present day, has been the country s most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In "Cast of Characters," Thomas Vinciguerra revisits the early years of that creative cauldron.
At the heart of the narrative is the largely forgotten life of Wolcott Gibbs, the magazine s theater critic and all-around wit, author of an infamous 1936 parody of "Time" magazine. Around him swirled a legendary roster of writers, editors, and illustrators, including E. B. and Katharine White, James Thurber, Charles Addams, Peter Arno, and John O Hara. Their stories are told here, along with those of equally colorful but overlooked figures like managing editor St. Clair McKelway, head fact-checker Frederick Packard, and the flamboyant film reviewer John Chapin Mosher.
Drawing on extensive interviews, multiple manuscript collections, and myriad secondary sources, "Cast of Characters" is a revealing look at the unique personalities who built what founding editor Harold Ross called not just a magazine but a movement. "
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