Vinciguerra, Thomas J. 1963-2021.

Cast of characters : Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the golden age of the New Yorker / Thomas Vinciguerra. - New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015.] - x, 452 p. : . ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Christmas greeting to The New Yorkers" ; "Either competent or horrible" ; "A ludicrous pastime" ; "Infatuation with pinheads" ; "Boy, do I like to handle authors!" ; "Most insanely miscast" ; "An offense to the ear" ; "Pretty gummy at best" ; "A silly occupation for a grown man" ; "I am a child of the sun" ; "Always poison" ; "Flying high and fast" ; "The moral climate is against it" ; "A lot of suicidal enterprises" ; "Whose days, in any case, were numbered."

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Gibbs, Wolcott, 1902-1958.
White, E. B. 1899-1985.
Thurber, James, 1894-1961.


New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)--History.
Periodicals--Publishing--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.

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