Philip Hensher

A touch of class | 31 December 2015

There are plenty of good stories about the legendary New Yorker in its heyday, but sadly Thomas Vinciguerra is no storyteller

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  • Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber and the Golden Age of the New Yorker

    Thomas Vinciguerra

    W.W. Norton, pp. 464

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