Talk Presentations
The Role of the Whites, E.B.
and Catherine White: Lee Spratley (10 February)
The Algonquin Round Table:
Chrissie Griffith (22 February)
James Thurber: Biography,
Personality (with some discussion of his New Yorker drawings): Kathy Gabriel
(8 February)
New Yorker Covers: Joey
Kingsley (31 March)
The New Yorker and the City
(Talk of the Town): Angelica Bega-Hart (15 February)
The Profile Section: Thara
Harris (14 April)
The Harold Ross Era: Elizabeth
Downing Johnson (1 March)
“Famous” Contributors During
the Ross Years: Courtney Sviatko (3 March)
The William Shawn Era:
Lauren Miner (22 March)
The Tina Brown Era: Dale
Smith (29 March)
A Perspective on New Yorker
Humor: John Paul Carlton (10 March)
New Yorker Cartoons:
Joyce Lillemon Boschert (7 April)
Social/Political Outlook of
The New Yorker: Ryan Cales (8 March)
The Fiction Issue: Tom
Batten (29 March)
Evolution of New Yorker Poetry:
Katelyn Kiley (5 April)
The New Yorker and “Non-American
Authors”: Angela Apte (19 April)
The New Yorker’s Handling of
Manuscripts: Adriane Hanson (12 April)