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Fleischmann (who founded the General Baking Company)<ref>[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/timeline "Timeline"], ''The New Yorker''. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107183533/http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/timeline |date=November 7, 2013 }}.</ref> to establish the F-R Publishing Company. The magazine's first offices were at 25 West 45th Street in [[Manhattan]]. Ross edited the magazine until his death in 1951. During the early, occasionally precarious years of its existence, the magazine prided itself on its cosmopolitan sophistication. Ross declared in a 1925 prospectus for the magazine: "It has announced that it is not edited for the old lady in [[Dubuque, Iowa|Dubuque]]."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Dirk |date=August 5, 1999 |title=Dubuque Journal; The Slight That Years, All 75, Can't Erase |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E2D81730F936A3575BC0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1}}</ref> Although the magazine never lost its touches of humor, it soon established itself as a preeminent forum for serious fiction, essays and journalism. Shortly after the end of [[World War II]], [[John Hersey]]'s essay ''[[Hiroshima (book)|Hiroshima]]'' filled an entire issue. The magazine has published short stories by many of the most respected writers of the 20th and 21st centuries, including [[Ann Beattie]], [[Sally Benson]], [[Maeve Brennan]], [[Truman Capote]], [[Rachel Carson]], [[John Cheever]], [[Roald Dahl]], [[Mavis Gallant]], [[Geoffrey T. Hellman|Geoffrey Hellman]], [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Stephen King]], [[Ruth McKenney]], [[John McNulty (journalist)|John McNulty]], [[Joseph Mitchell (writer)|Joseph Mitchell]], [[Alice Munro]], [[Haruki Murakami]], [[Vladimir Nabokov]], [[John O'Hara]], [[Dorothy Parker]], [[S.J. Perelman]], [[Philip Roth]], [[George Saunders]], [[J. D. Salinger]], [[Irwin Shaw]], [[James Thurber]], [[John Updike]], [[Eudora Welty]], and [[E. B. White]]. Publication of [[Shirley Jackson]]'s "[[The Lottery]]" drew more mail than any other story in the magazine's history.<ref name="Lottery letters">{{Cite magazine |last=Franklin |first=Ruth |date=June 25, 2013 |title='The Lottery' Letters |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-lottery-letters |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612140626/https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-lottery-letters |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |access-date=June 11, 2018 |magazine=The New Yorker |publisher=[[Condé Nast]]}}</ref> In its early decades, the magazine sometimes published two or even three short stories in an issue, but in later years the pace has remained steady at one story per issue.{{Cn|date=July 2023}} The nonfiction feature articles (usually the bulk of an issue) cover an eclectic array of topics. Subjects have included eccentric evangelist [[Creflo Dollar]],<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/10/11/pray-and-grow-rich |magazine=The New Yorker |title=Pray and Grow Rich |date=October 11, 2004 |publisher=[[Condé Nast]]}}</ref> the different ways in which humans perceive the passage of time,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/19/the-secret-life-of-time |magazine=The New Yorker |title=The Secret Life of Time | date=December 11, 2016 |publisher=[[Condé Nast]]}}</ref> and [[Münchausen syndrome by proxy]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/08/09/the-bad-mother |magazine=The New Yorker |title=The Bad Mother |date=August 2, 2004 |publisher=[[Condé Nast]]}}</ref> The magazine is known for its editorial traditions. Under the rubric ''Profiles'', it has published articles about prominent people such as [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Henry Luce|Henry R. Luce]] and [[Marlon Brando]], Hollywood restaurateur [[Michael Romanoff]], magician [[Ricky Jay]], and mathematicians [[Chudnovsky brothers|David and Gregory Chudnovsky]]. Other enduring features have been "Goings on About Town", a listing of cultural and entertainment events in New York, and "The Talk of the Town", a [[feuilleton]] or miscellany of brief pieces—frequently humorous, whimsical, or eccentric vignettes of life in New York—in a breezily light style, although latterly the section often begins with a serious commentary. For many years, newspaper snippets containing amusing errors, unintended meanings or badly mixed metaphors ("Block That Metaphor") have been used as filler items, accompanied by a witty retort. There is no masthead listing the editors and staff. Despite some changes, the magazine has kept much of its traditional appearance over the decades in typography, layout, covers and artwork. The magazine was acquired by [[Advance Publications]], the media company owned by [[Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr.|Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr]], in 1985,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Easley |first=Greg |date=October 1995 |title=The New Yorker: When a Magazine Wins Awards But Loses Money, the Only Success is the Editor's Private One |work=[[Spy (magazine)|Spy]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fM4yPDNHtHQC&q=1984+newhouse+the+new+yorker&pg=PA58}}</ref> for $200 million when it was earning less than $6 million a year.<ref name="mahon19890910">{{Cite news |last=Mahon |first=Gigi |date=September 10, 1989 |title=S.I. Newhouse and Conde Nast; Taking Off The White Gloves |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/10/magazine/si-newhouse-and-conde-nast-taking-off-the-white-gloves.html?pagewanted=all |url-status=live |access-date=September 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026164340/http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/10/magazine/si-newhouse-and-conde-nast-taking-off-the-white-gloves.html?pagewanted=all |archive-date=October 26, 2017}}</ref> Ross was succeeded as editor by [[William Shawn]] (1951–87), followed by [[Robert Gottlieb]] (1987–92) and [[Tina Brown]] (1992–98). The current editor of ''The New Yorker'' is [[David Remnick]], who succeeded Brown in July 1998.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Harper |first=Jennifer |date=July 13, 1998 |title=New Yorker Magazine Names New Editor |work=The Washington Times |agency=Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20900047.html |url-status=dead |access-date=December 22, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010075840/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-20900047.html |archive-date=October 10, 2017|via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref> Among the important nonfiction authors who began writing for the magazine during Shawn's editorship were [[Dwight Macdonald]], [[Kenneth Tynan]], and [[Hannah Arendt]], whose ''Eichmann in Jerusalem'' reportage appeared in the magazine,<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Arendt |first=Hannah |date=1963-02-08 |title=Eichmann in Jerusalem |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/02/16/eichmann-in-jerusalem-i |access-date=2023-11-27 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> before it was published as a book.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt – Reading Guide: 9780143039884 |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/320983/eichmann-in-jerusalem-by-hannah-arendt/9780143039884 |access-date=2023-12-22 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}</ref> Brown's tenure attracted more controversy than Gottlieb's or even Shawn's, thanks to her high profile (Shawn, by contrast, had been an extremely shy, introverted figure), and to the changes she made to a magazine with a similar look for the previous half-century. She introduced color to the editorial pages (several years before ''[[The New York Times]]'') and included photography, with less type on each page and a generally more modern layout. More substantively, she increased the coverage of current events and topics such as celebrities and business tycoons, and placed short pieces throughout "Goings on About Town", including a racy column about nightlife in Manhattan. A letters-to-the-editor page was introduced, and authors' bylines were added to their "Talk of the Town" pieces.{{Cn|date=July 2023}} Since the late 1990s, ''The New Yorker'' has used the Internet to publish current and archived material, and maintains a website with some content from the current issue (plus exclusive web-only content). Subscribers have access to the full current issue online and a complete archive of back issues viewable as they were originally printed. In addition, ''The New Yorker''{{'}}s cartoons are available for purchase online. A digital archive of back issues from 1925 to April 2008 (representing more than 4,000 issues and half a million pages) was also issued on DVD-ROMs and on a small portable hard drive. More recently, an iPad version of the current issue has been released.{{Cn|date=July 2023}}. In 2014, ''The New Yorker'' opened up online access to its archive, expanded its plans to run an ambitious website, and launched a paywalled subscription model. Web editor [[Nicholas Thompson (editor)|Nicholas Thompson]] said, "What we're trying to do is to make a website that is to the Internet what the magazine is to all other magazines."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/media/story/2014/07/a-relaunch-for-the-new-yorker-with-high-stakes-002553/ |publisher=Politico |title=A relaunch for the New Yorker, with high stakes |date=July 21, 2014 }}</ref> The magazine's editorial staff unionized in 2018 and [[The New Yorker Union]] signed its first [[collective bargaining agreement]] in 2021.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Robertson |first=Katie |date=2021-06-16 |title=New Yorker Union Reaches Deal With Condé Nast After Threatening to Strike |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/business/media/conde-nast-new-yorker-union-deal.html |url-access=limited |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/business/media/conde-nast-new-yorker-union-deal.html |archive-date=2021-12-28 |issn=0362-4331 |df=mdy-all}}{{cbignore}}</ref> === Influence and significance === ''The New Yorker'' influenced a number of similar magazines, including [[The Brooklynite (magazine)|''The Brooklynite'']] (1926 to 1930), ''[[The Chicagoan]]'' (1926 to 1935), and Paris's ''[[The Boulevardier]]'' (1927 to 1932).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lee |first=Judith Yaross |url=https://archive.org/details/definingnewyorke00leej |title=Defining New Yorker Humor |date=2000 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=9781578061983 |page=[https://archive.org/details/definingnewyorke00leej/page/12 12] |language=en |quote=brooklynite |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Overbey |first=Erin |author-link=Erin Overbey |date=January 31, 2013 |title=A New Yorker for Brooklynites |language=en |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-new-yorker-for-brooklynites |url-status=live |access-date=January 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914054336/http://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/a-new-yorker-for-brooklynites |archive-date=September 14, 2015 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=May 6, 1948 |title=Erskine Gwynne, 49, Wrote Book on Paris |url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/05/06/85217909.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510200252/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1948/05/06/85217909.html |archive-date=May 10, 2020 |access-date=January 27, 2019 |website=[[The New York Times]] |language=en}}</ref> [[Kurt Vonnegut]] said that ''The New Yorker'' has been an effective instrument for getting a large audience to appreciate modern literature.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Vonnegut |first=Kurt |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bLQeOR_m2YMC&pg=PA164 |title=Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |year=1988 |isbn=9780878053575 |editor-last=Allen |editor-first=William Rodney |location=Jackson |pages=163–164}}</ref> [[Tom Wolfe]] wrote of the magazine: "The ''New Yorker'' style was one of leisurely meandering understatement, droll when in the humorous mode, tautological and [[litotes|litotical]] when in the serious mode, constantly amplified, qualified, adumbrated upon, nuanced and renuanced, until the magazine's pale-gray pages became High Baroque triumphs of the relative clause and appository modifier".<ref>Wolfe, Tom, "Foreword: Murderous Gutter Journalism", in ''Hooking Up''. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000.</ref> Joseph Rosenblum, reviewing [[Ben Yagoda]]'s ''About Town'', a history of the magazine from 1925 to 1985, wrote, "''The New Yorker'' did create its own universe. As one longtime reader wrote to Yagoda, this was a place 'where [[Peter DeVries]] ...{{sic}} was forever lifting a glass of [[Piesporter]], where [[Niccolò Tucci]] (in a plum velvet dinner jacket) flirted in Italian with [[Muriel Spark]], where Nabokov sipped tawny [[Port wine|port]] from a prismatic goblet (while a [[Vanessa atalanta|Red Admirable]] perched on his pinky), and where John Updike tripped over the master's Swiss shoes, excusing himself charmingly{{' "}}.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rosenblum |first=Joseph |title=Magill's Literary Annual 2001: Essay-Reviews of 200 Outstanding Books Published in the United States During 2000 |publisher=Salem Press |year=2001 |isbn=0-89356-275-0 |editor-last=Wilson, John D. |location=Pasadena, CA |page=5 |chapter=About Town |editor-last2=[[Steven G. Kellman]]}}</ref> === Cinema === ''The New Yorker'' has been the source for motion pictures. Both fiction and nonfiction pieces have been adapted for the big screen, including the unreleased ''[[Coyote vs. Acme]]'', based on [[Ian Frazier]]'s article of the same name; ''[[Spiderhead]]'' (2022), based on George Saunders's story ''Escape from Spiderhead''; ''[[Flash of Genius (film)|Flash of Genius]]'' (2008), based on a true account of the invention of the intermittent windshield wiper by [[John Seabrook]]; ''[[Away from Her]]'', adapted from Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came over the Mountain", which debuted at the 2007 [[Sundance Film Festival]]; ''[[The Namesake (film)|The Namesake]]'' (2007), similarly based on [[Jhumpa Lahiri]]'s novel, which originated as a short story in the magazine; ''[[The Bridge (2006 documentary film)|The Bridge]]'' (2006), based on [[Tad Friend]]'s 2003 nonfiction piece "Jumpers"; ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' (2005), an adaptation of the short story by [[E. Annie Proulx|Annie Proulx]] that appeared in the October 13, 1997, issue; [[Jonathan Safran Foer]]'s 2001 debut in ''The New Yorker'', which later came to theaters in [[Liev Schreiber]]'s debut as both screenwriter and director, ''[[Everything Is Illuminated (film)|Everything Is Illuminated]]'' (2005); [[Michael Cunningham]]'s'' [[The Hours (film)|The Hours]]'', which appeared in ''The New Yorker'' before becoming the film that garnered the 2002 Best Actress Academy Award for [[Nicole Kidman]]; ''[[Adaptation (film)|Adaptation]]'' (2002), which [[Charlie Kaufman]] based on [[Susan Orlean]]'s ''The Orchid Thief'', written for ''The New Yorker''; Frank McCourt's ''[[Angela's Ashes]]'' (1999), which also appeared, in part, in ''The New Yorker'' before its film adaptation was released in 1999; ''[[The Addams Family (1991 film)|The Addams Family]]'' (1991) and its sequel, ''[[Addams Family Values]]'' (1993), both inspired by the work of ''New Yorker'' cartoonist [[Charles Addams]]; [[Brian De Palma]]'s ''[[Casualties of War]]'' (1989), which began as a ''New Yorker'' article by Daniel Lang; ''[[Boys Don't Cry (1999 film)|Boys Don't Cry]]'' (1999), starring Hilary Swank, which began as an article in the magazine; ''[[Iris (2001 film)|Iris]]'' (2001), about the life of Iris Murdoch and John Bayley, the article written by Bayley for ''The New Yorker'' before he completed his full memoir, the film starring Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent; ''[[The Swimmer (1968 film)|The Swimmer]]'' (1968), starring [[Burt Lancaster]], based on a John Cheever short story from ''The New Yorker''; ''[[In Cold Blood (film)|In Cold Blood]]'' (1967), the widely nominated adaptation of the 1965 nonfiction serial written for ''The New Yorker'' by [[Truman Capote]]; ''[[Pal Joey (film)|Pal Joey]]'' (1957), based on a series of stories by John O'Hara; ''[[Mister 880]]'' (1950), starring [[Edmund Gwenn]], based on a story by longtime editor [[St. Clair McKelway]]; ''[[The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947 film)|The Secret Life of Walter Mitty]]'' (1947), which began as a story by longtime ''New Yorker'' contributor James Thurber; and ''[[Junior Miss]]'' (1941) and ''[[Meet Me in St. Louis (film)|Meet Me in St. Louis]]'' (1944), both adapted from [[Sally Benson]]'s short stories.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} ===United States presidential election endorsements=== In its November 1, 2004, issue, the magazine endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time, choosing Democratic nominee [[John Kerry]] over incumbent Republican [[George W. Bush]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 25, 2004 |title=The Choice |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/01/the-choice-5 |url-status=live |magazine=The New Yorker |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101024210/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/01/the-choice-5 |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |access-date=February 21, 2020}}</ref> {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! colspan="2" | Endorsement ! Result ! class="unsortable" colspan="6" | Other major candidate(s) ! class="unsortable" | Ref. |- ! [[2004 United States presidential election|2004]] | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}" | | data-sort-value="Kerry, John" | '''[[John Kerry]]''' | Lost | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (US)}}" | | colspan="5"| [[George W. Bush]] |<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=November 1, 2004 |title=The Choice |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/01/the-choice-5 |url-status=live |access-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101024210/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/01/the-choice-5 |archive-date=November 1, 2020}}</ref> |- ! [[2008 United States presidential election|2008]] | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}" | | data-sort-value="Obama, Barack" | '''[[Barack Obama]]''' | Won | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (US)}}" | | colspan="5" | [[John McCain]] ||<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 13, 2008 |title=The Choice |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/13/the-choice-the-editors |url-status=live |access-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125211515/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/13/the-choice-the-editors |archive-date=January 25, 2021}}</ref> |- ! [[2012 United States presidential election|2012]] | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}" | | data-sort-value="Obama, Barack" | '''[[Barack Obama]]''' | Won | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (US)}}" | | colspan="5" | [[Mitt Romney]] ||<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 29, 2012 |title=The Choice |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/29/the-choice-8 |url-status=live |access-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124033104/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/29/the-choice-8 |archive-date=January 24, 2021}}</ref> |- ! [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]] | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}" | | data-sort-value="Clinton, Hillary" | '''[[Hillary Clinton]]''' | Lost | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (US)}}" | | colspan="5" | [[Donald Trump]] ||<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 31, 2016 |title=The New Yorker Endorses Hillary Clinton |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/the-new-yorker-endorses-hillary-clinton |url-status=live |access-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200415052126/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/31/the-new-yorker-endorses-hillary-clinton |archive-date=April 15, 2020}}</ref> |- ! [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]] | style="background-color:{{party color|Democratic Party (US)}}" | | data-sort-value="Biden, Joe" | '''[[Joe Biden]]''' | Won | style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (US)}}" | | colspan="5" | [[Donald Trump]] | <ref>{{Cite magazine |date=October 5, 2020 |title=The New Yorker Endorses a Biden Presidency |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/the-new-yorker-endorses-a-biden-presidency |url-status=live |access-date=December 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005211447/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/the-new-yorker-endorses-a-biden-presidency |archive-date=October 5, 2020}}</ref> |} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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