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From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New
Yorker slowly but surely took hold as America's most prestigious,
entertaining and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast
of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the
magazine's cadre of charming, driven, troubled brilliant writers
and editors. Many of these characters became legends in their own
right but Vinciguerra also shows how, as a group, The New Yorker's
inner circle brought forth a profound transformation in how life
was perceived, interpreted, written about and published in America.
Cast of Characters is the most revealing and entertaining book yet
about the personalities who built what Ross called not a magazine
but a "movement".
The Columbia University Seminars, founded in 1945, represent a
distinctive experiment in academia. Scholars from different
disciplines and institutions, as well as practitioners and other
experts, meet once a month through the academic year to study and
discuss subjects, sometimes beyond their specialties. Through
collegial discussion, participants learn from one another. Today,
over ninety seminars are ongoing: some have outlived their
founders, while others are just beginning. A Community of Scholars
is a seventy-fifth anniversary celebration of the founding of The
University Seminars. It brings together essays by seminar chairs
and other leading participants that exemplify the diversity and
vibrancy of these proceedings. Their topics are wide-ranging-the
evolution of the labor movement, urban life, the politics and
culture of Brazil, the Enlightenment, the prospects for world
peace-but in each, a commitment to intellectual provocation and
shared learning is on full display. An informative introduction
explains how The Seminars came into being and why they continue to
matter. The volume also features biographical sketches of Frank
Tannenbaum, the Latin America scholar and criminologist who founded
The Seminars, and his wife, the anthropologist Jane Belo, a close
friend of Margaret Mead. Belo and Tannenbaum endowed The Seminars
and allowed them to flourish. A remarkable testament to an
unparalleled intellectual forum, A Community of Scholars allows
readers to share in the eclectic spirit of The Seminars.
Playwright, biographer, screenwriter, and critic S. N. Behrman
(1893-1973) characterized the years he spent writing for The New
Yorker as a time defined by ""feverish contact with great theatre
stars, rich people and social people at posh hotels, at parties, in
mansions and great estates."" While he hobnobbed with the likes of
Mary McCarthy, Elia Kazan, and Greta Garbo and was one of
Broadway's leading luminaries, Behrman would later admit that the
friendships he built with the magazine's legendary editors Harold
Ross, William Shawn, and Katharine S. White were the ""one
unalloyed felicity"" of his life. People in a Magazine collects
Behrman's correspondence with his editors along with telegrams,
interoffice memos, and editorial notes drawn from the magazine's
archives - offering an unparalleled view of mid-twentieth-century
literary life and the formative years of The New Yorker, from the
time of Behrman's first contributions to the magazine in 1929 until
his death.
Playwright, biographer, screenwriter, and critic S. N. Behrman
(1893-1973) characterized the years he spent writing for The New
Yorker as a time defined by ""feverish contact with great theatre
stars, rich people and social people at posh hotels, at parties, in
mansions and great estates."" While he hobnobbed with the likes of
Mary McCarthy, Elia Kazan, and Greta Garbo and was one of
Broadway's leading luminaries, Behrman would later admit that the
friendships he built with the magazine's legendary editors Harold
Ross, William Shawn, and Katharine S. White were the ""one
unalloyed felicity"" of his life. People in a Magazine collects
Behrman's correspondence with his editors along with telegrams,
interoffice memos, and editorial notes drawn from the magazine's
archives - offering an unparalleled view of mid-twentieth-century
literary life and the formative years of The New Yorker, from the
time of Behrman's first contributions to the magazine in 1929 until
his death.
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