The New Yorker

The New Yorker is the name of the long running and widely respected magazine (debuted on February 21, 1925), well known for its success at popularizing the short story as a literary form in English in the mid-20th century. The magazine also is known for its journalism -- John Hersey's Hiroshima filled an entire issue -- and for its criticism and essays, particularly the short "Talk of the Town" pieces. Some readers look only for the cartoons and short humorous pieces.

Contributors have included:

• Charles Addams - cartoonist
• Woody Allen - humorist
• Roger Angell, fiction editor and baseball writer
• Peter Arno[?] - cartoonist
• Robert Benchley[?], humorist and theater critic
• George Booth[?] - cartoonist
• E.L. Doctorow - fiction writer
• Wolcott Gibbs[?] - parodist, humorist, reviewer, and short story writer
• Seymour M. Hersh[?] - Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter
• Pauline Kael[?], film critic
• A.J. Liebling[?], journalism critic
• Janet Malcolm
• S.J. Perelman[?] - humorist
• J. D. Salinger - short story writer
• Saul Steinberg[?] - illustrator
• James Thurber - cartoonist and essayist
• John Updike - fiction, essayist
• E. B. White - essayist and editor

External Link

• www.newyorker.com (http://www.newyorker.com/)