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The New Yorker Book of the 50s
The New Yorker Book of the 50s: Story of a Decade | The New Yorker Magazine
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The 1950s are enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and I Like Ike. But this was also a complex time, in which the afterglow of Total Victory firmly gave way to Cold War paranoia. A sense of trepidation grew with the Suez Crisis and the H-bomb tests. At the same time, the fifties marked the cultural emergence of extraordinary new energies, like those of Thelonious Monk, Sylvia Plath and Tennessee Williams. The New Yorker was there in real time, chronicling the tensions and innovations that lay beneath the eras placid surface. In this thrilling volume, classic works of reportage, criticism, and fiction are complemented by new contributions from the magazines present all-star line-up of writers, including Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm Gladwell, and Jill Lepore. Here are indelible accounts of the decades most exciting players: Truman Capote on Marlon Brando as a pampered young star; Berton Rouech on Jackson Pollock in his first flush of fame. Ernest Hemingway, Emily Post, Bobby Fischer, and Leonard Bernstein are also brought to vivid life in these pages. Among the audacious young writers who began publishing in the fifties was one who would become a stalwart for the magazine for fifty-five years: John Updike. Also featured here are great early works from Philip Roth and Nadine Gordimer, as well as startling poems by Theodore Roethke and Anne Sexton. Completing the panoply are insightful and entertaining new pieces by present day New Yorker contributors examining the 1950s through contemporary eyes.
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TheSpineView
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#ArtfulAugust @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @eggs
#BookishArt

The New Yorker has the best cover art!

PageShifter Wow!! 2y
DivineDiana It does! But does anyone really have a personal servant anymore? Not sure what is the correct title for said servant? Valet? 2y
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TheSpineView @DivineDiana Valet is the correct title. I have heard the job referred to as a Gentleman's Gentleman. A woman would have a Ladies maid. Correct me if I am wrong. Also, the cover is from 1940 or 41 I believe. 2y
DivineDiana Thank you! I missed the year on the magazine! 🙂 2y
TheSpineView @DivineDiana No worries 😊 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 2y
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Tanisha_A
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Hahahaha!

Daily humour by The New Yorker

Amiable Yes!! 5y
mabell That‘s awesome 😂 I love 🇨🇦 ! 5y
AmyG Ha! 5y
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LeahBergen 😆😆 5y
Suet624 YES!!! 5y
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Gina
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Because the 50's are nifty...

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Sarah83
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@Chelleo if you need another #bookishscreens, take a look here: https://www.google.de/search?client=ms-android-motorola&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=ewRMWuK...
Several bookish New Yorker covers are published here. 🤗😍

Chelleo 😍thanks!! 7y
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Jeg
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Reading this in bits and slowly. I‘m a person who grew up in America and Australia in the 50s and 60s. This along with the one about the 60s was a Xmas gift. Interesting to see how much has changed and how much hasn‘t!! @MrsMalaprop

goodbyefrancie I just ordered this from Amazon couple of days ago! I have the 40s and the 60s, and love the series. 7y
Jeg @goodbyefrancie we have all three. Really enjoying them. 7y
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