Editors select the top three entries to vie for reader votes and the prestige of having captioned a New Yorker cartoon. The magazine receives about 5,000 submissions each week, which are scrutinized by cartoon editor [Bob Mankoff] and a parade of assistants that burn out after a year or ...
our dao will try to win the new yorker magazine’s weekly cartoon caption contest, in which readers compete to supply the wittiest punch line to a captionless cartoon. each week, the dao members will vote on each other’s submissions and submit the internal winner to the actual contest. ...
Based on In Cold Blood: The Last to See Them Alive by Truman Capote (The New Yorker, 1965) Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans—in fact, few Kansans—had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yell...
“To Flowers, the neglect of the sanitation problem in Lowndes County is as obvious an environmental injustice as the contamination of drinking water in Flint, Michigan.”—The New Yorker One ofSmithsonianmagazine's Ten Best Science Books of 2020 Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur “geniu...
Down for the Count explores the tawdry history of elections in the United States—a chronicle of votes bought, stolen, suppressed, lost, miscounted, thrown into rivers, and litigated up to the U.S. Supreme Court—and uses it to explain why we are now exp
The New Yorker USA online submissions or by mail to: Fiction Editor, The New Yorker, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Unknown No submission guidelines given, best to read the magazine to see what kinds of stories they publish The Racket USA online submissions - see link None 2,...
As a professional submissions adviser, she has helped many writers successfully place their work in literary journals.Emily graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, then worked as a creative writing professor at Berkeley College in New York, as well as Seattle Pacific...
Doris Grumbach and James Laughlin of New Directions Press both named it one of their candidates for rediscovery in their submissions to Bill and Linda Katz’s 1983 guide to neglected books, Writer’s Choice. The editor Virginia Faulkner confided to Boyle that “Monday Night remains for me a ...
(1)ARISTOTLE!In 2017The New Yorkerconsidered“Fantastic Beasts and How to Rank Them”Aristotle isn’t the only one who had an opinion. Consider the yeti. Reputed to live in the mountainous regions of Tibet, Bhutan, and Nepal. Also known by the alias Abominable Snowman. Overgrown, in both...
As Masha Gessen notes in an interview with the author in the New Yorker,“Lifton’s impact on the study and treatment of trauma is unparalleled.” Surviving Our Catastrophes is a powerful rumination on how we can draw on historical examples of “survivor power” to understand and cope with ...