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 […]
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C469 Winesburg’s Sherwood Anderson
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 […]
C560 A tale of two leaders: Alan Garcia of Peru and Marcelo Oberbrecht of Brazil
A tale of two leader: Alan Garcia of Peru and Marcelo Oberbrecht of Brazil
J478 Louis P Horton, sea captain cum taxi driver
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 […]



