The stories behind The New Yorker's iconic covers | Françoise Mouly

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  • Blown Covers: New Yorker Covers You Were Never Meant to See

    • ASIN: 1419702092
    • ISBN: 1419702092
    • Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams

    Françoise Mouly takes us behind the scenes at the New Yorker and reveals how the magazine creates its signature covers commenting on the most urgent political and cultural events of the day. She shows the shocking and hilarious sketches that didn’t make the cut and explains how these are essential stages in the evolution of a cover that stands t... [Read More]

  • Covering the New Yorker: Cutting-Edge Covers from a Literary Institution

    • UPC: 735738065792
    • ASIN: 0789206579
    • ISBN: 0789206579
    • Manufacturer: Abbeville Pr

    Describes the emergence and development of the "New Yorker" magazine's cover art, and offers a collection of covers featuring the New York City experience, topical and seasonal subjects, the arts, sports, and other themes.

  • Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library (Paperback))

    • ASIN: 0375757511
    • ISBN: 9780375757518
    • Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    One of art's purest challenges is to translate a human being into words. The New Yorker has met this challenge more successfully and more originally than any other modern American journal. It has indelibly shaped the genre known as the Profile. Starting with light-fantastic evocations of glamorous and idiosyncratic figures of the twenties and thirt... [Read More]

  • The Big New Yorker Book of Cats

    • ASIN: 0679644776
    • ISBN: 0679644776
    • Brand: Random House
    • Manufacturer: Random House

    Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions.This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. Among the contributors are Margaret Atwood, T. Coragh... [Read More]

  • The New Yorker Book of Dog Cartoons

    • ASIN: 0679416803
    • ISBN: 0679416803
    • Manufacturer: Knopf

    Here's the dog's life as seen through the eyes and imaginations of, among others, Charles Addams, Edward Koren, Saul Steinberg, and the dog's all-time best friend, James Thurber. 101 cartoons in all from The New Yorker over the past 65 years.

  • Outliers: The Story of Success

    • ASIN: B001ANYDAO
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • The Complete New Yorker: Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine (Book & 8 DVD-ROMs)

    • ASIN: 1400064740
    • ISBN: 1400064740
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

    • ASIN: 1501133098
    • ISBN: 1501133098
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • 1984

    • ASIN: 1328869334
    • ISBN: 1328869334
    • Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick With extraordinary relevance and renewed popularity, George Orwell’s 1984 takes on new life in this hardcover edition. “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker   In 1984... [Read More]

  • Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (Modern Library (Paperback))

    • ASIN: 0375761276
    • ISBN: 0375761276
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he called it a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists in the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, James Thurbe... [Read More]

  • Humans of New York

    • ASIN: 1250038820
    • ISBN: 9781250038821
    • Brand: St Martin s Press
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

  • The Best of the Rejection Collection: 293 Cartoons That Were Too Dumb, Too Dark, or Too Naughty for The New Yorker

    • ASIN: 0761165789
    • ISBN: 0761165789
    • Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

    It’s the best of the worst: 293 of the funniest cartoons rejected by The New Yorker but luckily for us, now in paperback and available to enjoy. The Rejection Collection brings together some of The New Yorker’s brightest talents—Roz Chast, Gahan Wilson, Sam Gross, Jack Zeigler, David Sipress, and more—and reveals their other side. Their dar... [Read More]

  • Blitt

    • ASIN: 0399576665
    • ISBN: 0399576665
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    "One of the great political cartoonists of our time." —David RemnickA gorgeous, hilarious, and provocative compendium of the award-winning artist’s illustrations for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and more.  Barry Blitt’s cartoons have been lampooning American politics and culture for decades. His iconic New Yorker covers a... [Read More]

  • The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker (Book & CD)

    • ASIN: 1579123228
    • ISBN: 1579123228
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

    The book that Janet Maslin of The New York Times has called "indispensable" and "a transfixing study of American mores and manners that happens to incorporate boundless laughs, too" is finally available in paperback—fully updated and featuring a brand new introduction by Adam Gopnik. Organized by decade, with commentary by some of the magazine's... [Read More]

  • Disquiet, Please!: More Humor Writing from The New Yorker (Modern Library (Paperback))

    • ASIN: 0812979974
    • ISBN: 9780812979978
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    The New Yorker is, of course, a bastion of superb essays, influential investigative journalism, and insightful arts criticism. But for eighty years it’s also been a hoot. Now an uproarious sampling of its funny writings can be found in this collection, by turns satirical and witty, misanthropic and menacing. From the 1920s onward—but with a spe... [Read More]

  • Writings from the "New Yorker", 1920s-70s by White, E. B. (1989) Paperback

    • ASIN: B00NPN4280
    • Manufacturer: HarperPerennial

  • The Only Game in Town: Sportswriting from The New Yorker (Modern Library (Paperback))

    • ASIN: 0812979982
    • ISBN: 0812979982
    • Brand: Brand: Modern Library
    • Manufacturer: Modern Library

    For more than eighty years, The New Yorker has been home to some of the toughest, wisest, funniest, and most moving sportswriting around. The Only Game in Town is a classic collection from a magazine with a deep bench, including such authors as Roger Angell, John Updike, Don DeLillo, and John McPhee. Hall of Famer Ring Lardner is here, bemoaning th... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories of the Century (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442843676
    • ASIN: 0395843677
    • ISBN: 0395843677
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the b... [Read More]

  • New York Puzzle Company - New Yorker Liberty - 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

    • UPC: 819844013127
    • ASIN: B06XH1CJWJ
    • Brand: New York Puzzle Company
    • Manufacturer: New York Puzzle Company

    The Statue of Liberty takes a much needed rest from her usual upright stance, using the Brooklyn Bridge as a hammock. It is a warm lazy day and this lady liberty deserves a break.Liberty - New Yorker Cover by Artist Peter de Seve, originally published on May 25th, 1998 500 Piece Jigsaw PuzzleFinished Puzzle Size: 18''x24'' Made in the USA Recommend... [Read More]

  • Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know

    • ASIN: 1416583432
    • ISBN: 1416583432
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human. Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs’ perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draws a picture of what it might be like to be a dog. What’s it like to be... [Read More]

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