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New Yorker

• The New Yorker publishes the F. Scott Fitzgerald story it rejected 76 years ago

  By the mid-1930s, F. Scott Fitzgerald had published some of his best known works—This Side of Paradise in 1920, The Great Gatsby in 1925, and Tender Is the Night in… Read more »

• The curse of being profiled in The New Yorker

  In a Salon essay Alec Nevala-Lee suggests that a New Yorker profile may actually be a curse for Hollywood’s biggest talent, such that “whenever a New Yorker profile shows a… 1 / Read more »

• The Rejection Generator Project

  So little media, so much rejection. Prospective authors and hopeful manuscript submitters, take note.  Prepare your sensitive souls for rejection from harsh editors by first sending yourself a few rejection… Read more »

• An arms trafficker’s reading list

  What’s Viktor Bout, the convicted international arms trafficker, reading these days? In an interview with Nicholas Schmidle of The New Yorker, Bout—who is currently awaiting sentencing at Manhattan Correctional Center… Read more »

• WAYBACK MACHINE: Women and The New Yorker

  The internet is atwitter over the findings of the newest VIDA survey, which looked at the representation of “Women In Literary Arts” and found, once again, that things are far… Read more »

• The rare feat of the literary "exacta"

  Last week, the sci-fi superblog Io9 hailed our author Jean-Christophe Valtat’s wildly inventive Arctic fantasia Aurorarama as a top 10 sci-fi gift novel (“a wildly different take on the genre”). In this week’s… Read more »

• The Book of Raj

  A brilliant economist, social activist, and bestselling author–Raj Patel is a wonderful man. We knew that already. That’s why we published his book Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the… 2 / Read more »