In the Margins |
80 Years of Wit & Wisdom: The Complete New Yorkerby M. Faust |
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Copies of 4,109 issues of The New Yorker— every one since the magazine’s inception in the 1920s—would be a swell gift for anyone who likes to read, but who aside from the Collier Brothers would actually want to have them around the house? And even if you had room for them, you’d go nuts trying to find anything in particular, from their first profile of rising young actress Bette Davis to the cartoons of James Thurber to the first appearance of film reviewer Pauline Kael.
The fact that you can get exactly that—every issue of the New Yorker, complete with every article, every illustration, and every advertisement—on a set of eight DVD-ROMs—is a miracle that is likely to sell computers to a sizable percentage of that last batch of Luddite holdouts. The discs are searchable, so you can easily find the reportage of Joseph Mitchell, the humor of Dorothy Parker or S. J. Perlman, or fiction by pretty much every worthy American writer of the century. And the fact that the whole package sells for $99—one-third of what you might pay for box sets of “Friends” or “Sex in the City”—indicates that while the marketplace may not have its priorities in order, it certainly has bargains to offer. Available at bookstores or from www.thenewyorkerstore.com
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