The New Yorker

=== 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>