"In the introduction to "The New Yorker Index 1992," a twenty-page catalogue of everything the magazine published that year, the staff writer John McPhee acknowledged a ritual familiar to many readers: tackling a stack of unread issues. Instead of catching up at home, he'd schlep his copies up to New Hampshire and read in the middle of a lake, while lying in a canoe."
"Exploring past New Yorker pieces is now a lot easier (and more portable). As of this week, our full archive is available to read at newyorker.com. On top of what was previously accessible, we've added more than a hundred thousand articles from more than four thousand issues, a stack hefty enough to sink your canoe. Not only is everything from the 1992 index accounted for-Susan Orlean on the inner workings of a supermarket,"
John McPhee read unread New Yorker issues while lying in a canoe on a New Hampshire lake and then phoned the librarian to locate specific pieces. The full New Yorker archive is now available online at newyorker.com. More than one hundred thousand articles from over four thousand issues have been added. The collection includes Susan Orlean on supermarket workings, Talk of the Town items about urinals, John Updike's 1961 short story "A & P," and Calvin Tomkins's Profile of Marcel Duchamp. Contributions by Jorge Luis Borges, Susan Sontag, Ralph Ellison, and Louise Glück are present. The archive holds over thirty-one thousand Talk of the Town items, about two thousand four hundred Reporter at Large pieces, more than thirteen thousand works of fiction, fourteen thousand poems, three thousand Letters from global locations, and fifteen hundred Annals covering diverse topics.
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