The New Yorker

Letters from the Editor

The New Yorker's Harold Ross

Harold Wallace Ross

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Letter

55 East 86[th St., New York] to Harold Ross, The New Yorker, 1949 Jan. 27

John O'Hara, Harold Wallace Ross

Proposes that the New Yorker pay him $2,000 per story for the next five stories it accepts. If he produces five acceptable stories within one year, O'Hara suggests that Ross write off the money he currently owes the magazine. If the proposition is not accepted, O'Hara will not write anything else for the New Yorker.

Harold Ross and His Hollywood Restaurant

Harold Wallace Ross

Letters from The New Yorker founder Harold Wallace Ross concerning comedian Dave Chasen's Restaurant in Hollywood, of which he was part owner.

Letter

To Harold Ross, The New Yorker, 1949 Feb. 7

John O'Hara, Harold Wallace Ross

Accepts Ross's counter-offer of $1,200 for O'Hara's next five stories for the New Yorker magazine. O'Hara had originally demanded $2,000.

The Years with Ross ... With Drawings by the Author

James Thurber

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Letter

To Harold Ross, 1949 [April 5?].

John O'Hara, Harold Wallace Ross

Expresses shock and anger at Ross's refusal of short story entitled "The favor." "As far as I'm concerned The New Yorker can go to hell." Pencilled note at end asks that Ross send back the story O'Hara sent last night without reading it.

The New Yorker

Harold Wallace Ross, William Shawn, Tina Brown, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Rea Irvin

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The New Yorker

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The New Yorker

Album of Sports and Games

New Yorker (Périodique)

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The New Yorker

Harold Wallace Ross, William Shawn, Tina Brown, David Remnick, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Rea Irvin, Roger Angell

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The New Yorker’s Paris

Janet Flanner and the City of Light

James Smith Allen

A study of the cultural impact of Janet Flanner, better known as Genêt, the overseas correspondent of The New Yorker magazine for fifty years The New Yorker’s Paris studies the cultural impact of Janet Flanner, better known as Genêt, the overseas correspondent of The New Yorker magazine for fifty years (1925-1975). From the creativity of the Jazz Age before World War II to France’s political, social, and economic modernization after the war, Flanner’s bimonthly “Letters from Paris” column kept her American readers abreast of developments in the City of Light. Her witty, wry, well-crafted columns helped her audience understand Parisians, not only in their glamorous and cultured sophistication, but in their complex, often contradictory European context. Curious readers learned, in real time, how France lost and regained its way during the bulk of the twentieth century. In her own fashion, Flanner reframed the stereotypes that Americans had of the French during World War II, but also long afterwards, as France, a NATO ally, charted an independent course between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War. Although Paris was Flanner’s post, she did not limit herself to reporting events in the French capital. Her challenge to American imaginaries included other countries in Europe, particularly pre-war Britain and post-war Germany and Italy. Consequently, Flanner was as much a European correspondent as she was a veritable historian in her journalistic practice. She was, and still is, worth reading for the breadth and depth of her best work, available in several collected works and in her papers at the Library of Congress. Her journalism set a new standard for foreign correspondents, and she was subsequently honored with the National Book Award in 1966 for a lifetime of scrupulous reporting and carefully crafted prose. The legacy of her insights reverberates among reporters exploring many of the same cultural tropes today, not just in The New Yorker but also in long-format journalism everywhere.

The Rural New-Yorker

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