Comma Queen
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Mary Norris, New Yorker copy editor and author of Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (Norton, 2015), talks about commas in this episode of a new video series from the New Yorker.
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I Was a Child
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"I guess this book is about surviving and what we are born into." New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan explains his intentions for his illustrated memoir, I Was a Child, published by Blue Rider Press this month.
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Roz Chast
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Actor Steve Martin interviews the author and cartoonist about her start as a staff cartoonist at the New Yorker. Chast won the Kirkus Prize in nonfiction for her graphic memoir Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury, 2014).
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Lawrence Weschler
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The former New Yorker staff writer and director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU delivered this keynote address, "A Typology of Convergences: Towards a Unified Field Theory of Cultural Transmission," at the 2013 Graduate Student Conference at the School of Visual Arts.
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Jhumpa Lahiri at Work
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“Even after publishing my first book, I felt that the writing of the story came out of a place of deep isolation for me.” Jhumpa Lahiri discusses the creative process that informed her latest novel, The Lowland, which made the 2013 Man Booker shortlist.
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The New Yorker Gets Refreshed
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New Yorker has been telling the story of our culture for eighty-eight years.” Wyatt Mitchell, the magazine’s creative director, explains the historical context to font updates and design changes that have modernized iconic sections of the revered publication.
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God, I Love Writers!
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Here's a pleasant daydream in the form of an animated New Yorker cartoon by Charles Barsotti.
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Rin Tin Tin
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Next week Simon & Schuster will publish Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean, the long-time staff writer at the New Yorker and author of seven books, including Saturday Night and The Orchid Thief. In her new book Orlean chronicles the life of the dog that was born on a battlefield in France in 1918 and became a movie star and international icon.
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Sea Full of Hooks
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This short film, based on the poem "The Straightforward Mermaid" by Matthea Harvey, was filmed and directed by Ani Simon-Kennedy. It was selected for the Short Film Corner at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. You can read the poem, which appeared in the New Yorker last August, here.
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Ian Frazier's Travels in Siberia
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New Yorker editor David Remnick talks with Ian Frazier, whose new book, Travels in Siberia, was published earlier this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The conversation took place at the New Yorker Festival on October 3.
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