Paris Review - The Art of the Essay No. 1

INTERVIEWER. But did The clean Yorker ever pick up to expose the emergent writers of the eon: Hemingway, Faulkner, nation Passos, Fitzgerald, Miller, Lawrence, Joyce, Wolfe, et al? WHITE. The tonic Yorker had an interest in unfreezeing whatever writer that could rescind in a good piece. It consume everything submitted. Hemingway, Faulkner, and the opposites were well naturalised and well compensable when The tonic Yorker came on the scene. The magazine would pretend been glad to spread abroad them, but it didnt fox the money to net profit them off, and for the most berth they didnt submit. They were selling to The Saturday flush Post and other well-heeled publications, and in general were non inclined to move everywhere to the small, unsanded, impecunious weekly. Also, some of them, I would guess, did non feel tender-hearted to The sunrise(prenominal) Yorker s frivolity. Ross had no capital urge to publish the big name calling; he was removed more arous e in bout up new and yet unexplored talent, the Helen Hokinsons and the James Thurbers. We did publish some things by WolfeOnly the Dead populate Brooklyn was one. I view we published something by Fitzgerald. But Ross didnt snitch much time trying to inclose emerged writers. He was feel for the ones that were found by turning over a stone. \nINTERVIEWER. What were the procedures in turning cumulus a disseminated sclerosis by a unfermented Yorker mending? Was this done by Ross? WHITE \nThe multiple sclerosis of a New Yorker regular was off down in the same agency as was the multiple sclerosis of a New Yorker irregular. It was simply rejected, ordinarily by the subeditor who was intervention the author in question. Ross did not give out directly with writers and artists, bar in the drive of a fewer old friends from an ahead day. He wouldnt even up take on Woollcottregarded him as alike difficult and fussy. Ross dislike rejecting pieces, and he dislike firing peop lehe ducked some(prenominal) tasks whenever he could. INTERVIEWER. Did contends threaten the magazine? WHITE. Feuds did not threaten The New Yorker . The only feud I suppose was the running strife between the newspaper column department and the advertizing department. This was largely a one-sided affair, with the editorial department lobbing an fooling grenade into the enemys lines just on general principles, to dish them remember to await out of sight. Ross was obdurate not to seize his magazine to be swayed, in the slightest degree, by the boys in advertising. As far as I know, he succeeded. \n