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Cashing in on New Yorker cache
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Ian Shapira is a Globe correspondent. He writes from Louisville,
Ky.
If The New Yorker's readers, as well as its writers, disdain
celebrity fluff, they certainly do not seem to mind hype about the
magazine. Books, essays, and memoirs all are part of a lucrative
publishing vein that has produced 10 such works since the magazine's
inception nearly 75 years ago.
Recently, the volume of these books has picked up. Two New Yorker
writers last summer spent a combined 650 pages contempla...
