Lillian Ross, who became known as the consummate fly-on-the-wall reporter in more than six decades at The New Yorker, whether writing about Ernest Hemingway, Hollywood or a busload of Indiana high school seniors on a class trip to New York. Ms. Ross preached unobtrusive reporting and practiced what she preached. She outlined her credo in the preface to her book “Reporting” (1964): “Your attention at all times should be on your subject, not on you. Do not call attention to yourself.” And true to form, on assignment, Ms. Ross asked very few questions and never used tape recorders but filled…
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Vogue Magazine, December 1926 Photograph by Edward Steichen THE history of Sherwood Anderson is the history of a man groping painfully for an understanding of his own ideas. They flash before him out of the void, and he contemplates them with a sort of wonder, seeking to penetrate their significance, and sometimes not succeeding. Here I do not simply speculate grandly; I say only what the man has said himself, and in plain terms. Mid-American Chants represents his effort to turn this puzzlement into ecstasy; in Many Marriages he takes refuge in metaphysics; in such acrid and revelatory short stories as Death in the…
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A tale of two leader: Alan Garcia of Peru and Marcelo Oberbrecht of Brazil
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Little was found on Mr. Horton, and that was from the archives the New Yorker Magazine October 28, 1939 volume 15 issue #2. It seems they were doing “slice of life” stories and Marc Jones must have been entranced by the various people they interviewed. As for the Captain, he is a rather askew Bucket with a Neptunian handle, appropriately enough. For Indian ancestry he gets the rather unique Ascendant of “Zuni Sun Worshipers,” that is about a return to nature and a simpler and uncomplicated time and place. Our header image is probably what the New Yorker writers…
