A smooth talker, ‘cause I’m a Queens New Yorker, My rhymes bring more Good Times than Jimmie Walker. Kool G. Rap, “Bad to the Bone,” from Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo’s Wanted: Dead or Alive, 1990 1990, DJ Polo, east coast, good times, jimmie walker, Kool G. Rap, large prof...
When I first spotted this I thought it was an early edition ofTheNew Yorker’sfamed Christmas poem, but those were started byFrank Sullivanin 1932. Nevertheless, here is a clever “Saga of Somerset County” from our dearE.B. White: * * * From Our Advertisers For men who hadn’t lost...
Lois Long was only 29 years old when she wrote her “Doldrums” series for The New Yorker, but the chronicler of Jazz Age nightlife who once epitomized the flapper lifestyle felt much older given how much the world had changed in just a few short years. She was particularly appalled by ...
New Yorker Offers A Poem Burning With SpiceMichel Martin
"That, perhaps, is the sign of a great New Yorker, and especially a great New York artist: The ability to love the city not despite its grit but because of it, to inhabit its struggles with dignity rather than disgust, with empathic curiosity rather than cruel gawking." —Maria Popova,...
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Ripping a Charles Simic Poem Out of The New YorkerJoshua Michael Stewart
…and this submission that was doubtless inspired by Arno’s own home life and his brief, tempestuous marriage toNew YorkercolleagueLois Long… …here’s a couple of comics featuring Milquetoast characters…this one byGarrett Price… …and another byLeonard Dove… ...
It is always with a tinge of sadness that I write about Morris Markey, who from the start wrote for virtually every department at The New Yorker and was best known for his “A Reporter at Large” feature. According to his obituary in The New York Times, Markey won his greatest recognitio...