I've often thought it a privilege to come across an exceptional piece, a compelling narrative, a brilliant book. That's how it feels to me reading your evocative piece about your years at The New Yorker. Thank you.
What an achievement! Love the peek behind the masthead--and Newhouse writing to subscribers is unbelievable! Does this mean we'll be able to read The New Yorker Diaries one day??
Thx. Alas I didn't keep a diary because i had two kids and it was so much more intense than a monthly. But sometime I will write memoirs and try to piece it together in more detail!
IT HAD TO BE YOU. (DAMMIT ) WONDERFUL YOU. IT HAD TO BE YOU. AND ALLL THE REST...WHAT A CENTURY IT'S BEEN. HAIL TO LONGEVITY AND REMEMBERING OUR NANNIES NAMES WITH PRIDE AND RESEPECT
This is a wonderful appreciation of the magazine, but also an intriguing revelation of mild-mannered skullduggery at TNY. What strikes me most is the vivid description of quirky, eccentric talent - and what talent! To have nurtured these great writers, to have restored the magazine to economic viability, and to have passed on your leadership to a more than capable crew represents a treasured gift to its readers. It’s an enormous accomplishment and a gift that keeps on giving. Thank you, Tina.
What an absolute joy and thrill to read. And you pulled my all-time favorite New Yorker cartoon, one I’ve shared with many beleaguered and burnt-out colleagues over the years.
You brought tears to my eyes. My first New Yorker subscription was when I was 6, a gift from my mother because she thought I would like the cartoons. In retrospect, I realize it was for her. I am now 72 and still love the magazine as it has accompanied me through the ups and downs of life. The only downside to being a devotee of the New Yorker is that you are unable to read most other publications as they are written so badly and edited so poorly. Thank you Tina for resuscitating TNY and for sharing such an intimate glimpse into a beloved institution.
OMG, such exquisite writing. I felt like I was there listening in as you talked to all the journalists coming and going. Laughing at times at the plight, and a woman re-imagined The New Yorker. Kudos to you!
As a reader since childhood, my appreciation of the magazine has grown with your depictions of The New Yorker's inner workings. That history is invaluable, and your unique perspective and sharp wit are the extra sauce.
I love every word of this, but especially your recitation of the swank and swagger of the early days of the magazine that was not for the lady from Dubuque. In researching a biography of the late Shubert president Bernard Jacobs, I savored A.J. Liebling's masterly 1939 three-part profile of Lee and J.J. Shubert -- the Boys from Syracuse -- not only for its irresistible merging of reportage and abashment -- feigned, no doubt -- at their quirks and excesses, but for the saucy (when did you last read that word?) cartoons surrounding it, drawings that would have been at home in Playboy a quarter-century hence and which would be unlikely to pass muster today...
Did you and/or Harry know my friend Bob Ginna, co-founder of People, EIC of Little, Brown, companion of Gail Sheehy after Clay ascended to the Heaviside Layer? Bob died this week at 99...
I started to subscribe to The New Yorker when you were editor. You were a brilliant editor! I subscribe still and you got me started. Thank you for that.
In cleaning house last week, what joy at rediscovering my pile of saved New Yorker covers. The comics, the covers . . . . never fail to tear through to the core.
I've often thought it a privilege to come across an exceptional piece, a compelling narrative, a brilliant book. That's how it feels to me reading your evocative piece about your years at The New Yorker. Thank you.
Very pleased you enjoyed it. It was huge fun to write T
What an achievement! Love the peek behind the masthead--and Newhouse writing to subscribers is unbelievable! Does this mean we'll be able to read The New Yorker Diaries one day??
Thx. Alas I didn't keep a diary because i had two kids and it was so much more intense than a monthly. But sometime I will write memoirs and try to piece it together in more detail!
IT HAD TO BE YOU. (DAMMIT ) WONDERFUL YOU. IT HAD TO BE YOU. AND ALLL THE REST...WHAT A CENTURY IT'S BEEN. HAIL TO LONGEVITY AND REMEMBERING OUR NANNIES NAMES WITH PRIDE AND RESEPECT
A toast to them all! T
This is a wonderful appreciation of the magazine, but also an intriguing revelation of mild-mannered skullduggery at TNY. What strikes me most is the vivid description of quirky, eccentric talent - and what talent! To have nurtured these great writers, to have restored the magazine to economic viability, and to have passed on your leadership to a more than capable crew represents a treasured gift to its readers. It’s an enormous accomplishment and a gift that keeps on giving. Thank you, Tina.
Thanks so much !It was such an honor to be given the chance to do it T
You were (are) an editor of genius, there and at VF.
Blush blush T
What an absolute joy and thrill to read. And you pulled my all-time favorite New Yorker cartoon, one I’ve shared with many beleaguered and burnt-out colleagues over the years.
Thank you. That cartoon is my fave too. Says everything about how we all feel all the time! T
You brought tears to my eyes. My first New Yorker subscription was when I was 6, a gift from my mother because she thought I would like the cartoons. In retrospect, I realize it was for her. I am now 72 and still love the magazine as it has accompanied me through the ups and downs of life. The only downside to being a devotee of the New Yorker is that you are unable to read most other publications as they are written so badly and edited so poorly. Thank you Tina for resuscitating TNY and for sharing such an intimate glimpse into a beloved institution.
So glad you still read it with pleasure as do i. The last bastion of good writing! T
OMG, such exquisite writing. I felt like I was there listening in as you talked to all the journalists coming and going. Laughing at times at the plight, and a woman re-imagined The New Yorker. Kudos to you!
This makes me very happy to hear. Thx hugely T
As a reader since childhood, my appreciation of the magazine has grown with your depictions of The New Yorker's inner workings. That history is invaluable, and your unique perspective and sharp wit are the extra sauce.
so glad the piece brought it alive for you, T
I love every word of this, but especially your recitation of the swank and swagger of the early days of the magazine that was not for the lady from Dubuque. In researching a biography of the late Shubert president Bernard Jacobs, I savored A.J. Liebling's masterly 1939 three-part profile of Lee and J.J. Shubert -- the Boys from Syracuse -- not only for its irresistible merging of reportage and abashment -- feigned, no doubt -- at their quirks and excesses, but for the saucy (when did you last read that word?) cartoons surrounding it, drawings that would have been at home in Playboy a quarter-century hence and which would be unlikely to pass muster today...
It was so much more fun in thos early years. But also - incredible how much access people gave hte writers in the pre PR days. Glad you enjoyed T
Did you and/or Harry know my friend Bob Ginna, co-founder of People, EIC of Little, Brown, companion of Gail Sheehy after Clay ascended to the Heaviside Layer? Bob died this week at 99...
I’m breathless.
What a triumph.
I confess I was an early skeptic. But that was smashed in a few months.
Reading this today, I suspect the entire magazine—no, the entire institution of quality magazine journalism—was saved by your tenure.
Hi, Joni and thanks for writing this so much,! No one understands an editor's challenges more than you T
Brilliant. Loved reading this. To use a quote from the article, beautiful sentences and intellectual rigor.
thrilled it landed well with you! T
I started to subscribe to The New Yorker when you were editor. You were a brilliant editor! I subscribe still and you got me started. Thank you for that.
So glad you still a reader and delighted i got you going,. Thanks so much T
In cleaning house last week, what joy at rediscovering my pile of saved New Yorker covers. The comics, the covers . . . . never fail to tear through to the core.
Such a feast for the eyes arent they? Glad to hear from you T
This was like swimming in champagne. And really good stuff too.
what a lovely ( bubbly) description. So glad you enjoyed T
What a great read and, of course, what a triumph your time there was.
Thanks so much, Shelley. How lucky I was to work there is all I think now.