Since its launch in 1925, The New Yorker has cornered the market on literary cosmopolitanism through its irreverent tone, visual style, and ability to draw the talents of unparalleled writers and artists. In its pages—and in the bustling New Yorker offices—editors, writers, and artists, along with lesser-known collaborators from typesetters to fact-checkers, put together the nuts and bolts of the magazine with words and vision, pencil and printer’s ink. In this major new exhibition, The New York Public Library will bring to life the people, stories, and ideas that made The New Yorker what it was—and still is today. Drawing primarily from the Library’s rich collections, the exhibition will survey a hundred years of life at the magazine, featuring typewriters used by editor William Shawn and writer Lillian Ross; manuscripts and drafts by celebrated authors, from Hannah Arendt to Sapphire; correspondence between New Yorker editors and J. D. Salinger, Annie Proulx, and Vladimir Nabokov; and original art by Charles Addams and Kara Walker.
This exhibition is organized by The New York Public Library and curated by Julie Golia, Associate Director, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books and Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscripts, and Julie Carlsen, Assistant Curator, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
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