The Literary Giants Who Reinvented 'The New Yorker'

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 23, 2015

Thomas Vinciguerra reveals the people who helped shape The New Yorker. His book, Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker introduces us to the team of witty, troubled, brilliant writers and editors from the magazine’s birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War.

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