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Title: The Years with Ross by James Thurber ISBN: 0-06-095971-1 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: How He Was
Comment: Thurber got into trouble with his friend and co-New Yorker stalwart E.B. White for writing this portrait of their boss and benefactor. Between them the three wrote most of "The New Yorker" in its crucial first decades. These chapters, first written as a series of articles for "The Atlantic", are a model of the rich, primary source biography. Thurber pulls no punches. His Ross is not "a monument" as he puts it, but a man, worth looking at in all his strange glory. I would rate this book alongside Herndon's Life of Lincoln as one of the best accounts of a man by his contemporary, without the veneer of legend and without an undercurrent of envy. Thurber shared an office with Ross for who knows how many years, learned a lot about writing from him (some examples of his razor fine editing are here to learn from), and did a great deal of his best writing in the man's employ. One of Thurber's best books, and that makes it one of the best books there is. You could do worse than read this book before trying to write a life of anyone who's still living. You could do worse than reading this book before trying to write even one article about the life of somebody alive and real.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating author looks at an equally fascinating editor
Comment: James Thurber was in his 60s when he wrote THE YEARS WITH ROSS. Harold Ross was the first editor of The New Yorker. He was a homely man, awkward in manner and speech. Ross couldn't write, but he was a fine editor. He lacked a good education and was sadly unaware of most social graces so he was often uncouth, but he created one of the USA's outstanding magazines. The New Yorker is a stalwart of literary sophistication.
Thurber's study is not only an intriguing look at a real character of an editor but the story of how a magnificent magazine grew under the guidance of one of the truly talented editors of all time.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book on Ross
Comment: This biography (which I am very pleased to see has become a classic!) is wonderful - a fine personal memoir of the New Yorker founder and editor, Harold Ross. It talks about his life at work and otherwise, from the point of view of one of the pillars of that magazine's early life, James Thurber. The writing is funny (of course), vivid and immediate. Together with Letters From the Editor and Genius in Disguise, it will bring you as close as it is possible to get to Ross, who was, in my humble opinion, one hell of a guy. A must-read for all editors, would-be or otherwise.
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Title: Here at the New Yorker by Brendan Gill ISBN: 0306808102 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Letters From the Editor, The New Yorker's Harold Ross by Thomas Kunkel ISBN: 0375503978 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 04 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker: The Invisible Art of Editing (Mehta, Ved, Continents of Exile.) by Ved Mehta ISBN: 0879517077 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Here But Not Here: My Life with William Shawn and The New Yorker by Lillian Ross ISBN: 1582431108 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 03 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the New Yorker by Thomas Kunkel ISBN: 0786703237 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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