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Harold Ross and His Hollywood Restaurant
Letters from The New Yorker founder Harold Wallace Ross concerning comedian Dave Chasen's Restaurant in Hollywood, of which he was part owner.
Letters from the Editor
These exhilarating letters—selected and introduced by Thomas Kunkel, who wrote Genius in Disguise, the distinguished Ross biography—tell the dramatic story of the birth of The New Yorker and its precarious early days and years. Ross worries about everything from keeping track of office typewriters to the magazine's role in wartime to the exact questions to be asked for a "Talk of the Town" piece on the song "Happy Birthday." We find Ross, in Kunkel's words, "scolding Henry Luce, lecturing Orson Welles, baiting J. Edgar Hoover, inviting Noel Coward and Ginger Rogers to the circus, wheedling Ernest Hemingway— offering to sell Harpo Marx a used car and James Cagney a used tractor, and explaining to restaurateur-to-the-stars Dave Chasen, step by step, how to smoke a turkey." These letters from a supreme editor tell in his own words the story of the fierce, lively man who launched the world's most prestigious magazine.
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Note to accompany a story sent directly to Ross. Pencilled note at end suggests that Ross should "do a little more buying. This productivity isn't going to last forever."
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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.
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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.
Genius in Disguise
This hugely entertaining biography of the founding editor of The New Yorker tells the diverting story of how Ross and the brilliant group of people he gathered around him--including James Thurber, Charles Addams, Dorothy Parker, and John O'Hara--devised the formula that made the magazine such a popular and critical success. Photos & cartoons.
The Years with Ross
From iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine’s unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross “Extremely entertaining. . . . life at The New Yorker emerges as a lovely sort of pageant of lunacy, of practical jokes, of feuds and foibles. It is an affectionate picture of scamps playing their games around a man who, for all his brusqueness, loved them, took care of them, pampered and scolded them like an irascible mother hen.” —New York Times With a foreword by Adam Gopnik and illustrations by James Thurber At the helm of America’s most influential literary magazine from 1925 to 1951, Harold R...
Servanthood and the Christian Editor
Markham shows how the effective editor serves four masters: the publisher, the reader, the writer and the Lord
The Whole Harmonium
"A perceptive, insightful biography of perhaps the most important American poet of the twentieth century, Wallace Stevens, by an accomplished biographer and poet who traces Stevens's lifelong artistic quest"--
