Description:
This collection of newly commissioned critical essays reads across and between New Yorker departments, from sports writing to short stories, cartoons to reporters at large, poetry to annals of business.
Brief description: Fiona Green is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College. Her recent publications include 'Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Village" in The New Yorker, ' Critical Quarterly 52.2, 2010, 31-46; her review essay of Bishop's Correspondence with The New Yorker was the TLS lead article (15 April 2011).
Review Quotes: 'Writing for The New Yorker is a rich and fascinating book that will receive considerable attention not only amongst academics, but also in the wider intellectual world.'Professor Andrew Thacker, Professor of English Literature, Nottingham Trent University-- "Andrew Thacker, Professor of English Literature, Nottingham Trent University"