Attempted Bloggery

"Private Lives," Noël Coward's "intimate comedy in three acts," was published in 1930. Coward inscribed a copy to d...

Writer Steve Stoliar brightens my new year with news of his most recent acquisition: It's a 1923 book called Actorviews, written by no...

On New Year's Day, I came across an AbeBooks listing for the very first issue of The New Yorker, dated February 21, 1925. I was immedia...

There have been many creative attempts to combine postal covers with celebrity autographs. In 1933, decades before first day covers came in...

One hundred one years ago today New York Times reporter Jane Grant and American Legion Weekly editor-in-chief Harold Ross were married....

Art Young's portrait of celebrated  New Yorker writer Alexander Woollcott shows the critic and radio personality seated informally i...

Armed Services Edition No. 933 published in November of 1945 was a selection of short stories from The Bedside Tales (1945). It was issued ...

It seems an unforgivable lapse, but History for Sale somehow has just sold on eBay a two-page typed letter, signed, from literary and ca...

THE NEW YORKER will be a reflection in word and picture of metropolitan life. It will be human. Its general tenor will be one of gaiety,...