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	Ben Yagoda
		Some years ago local writer Ben Yagoda happened upon a little article in The New York Times; The New Yorker was donating its files to the New York Public Library.
		Then in 1994, Yagoda recalls from his home in Swarthmore, "I went up there and started looking around." Out of the 2,500 boxes of files, a substantial part was correspondence between editors and contributors, and interoffice memos covering the fascinating minutiae of a magazine’s daily workings.
		The result of Yagoda’s labors is a fascinating cultural history of a magazine that is a culture unto itself.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/050400/cw.critpick.ben.shtml (197 words)

	Amazon.ca: About Town : The New Yorker and The World It Made: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yagoda's book stands out from many books that have been offered to readers about the magazine for while he certainly is aware of the contributions the magazine has made for over 8 decades; he does not seem to be in awe of it or the people to the point it affects his writing.
		Yagoda also spends a good amount of his book on the cartoons, their artists, and the painful process that started with an idea only to have to run a gauntlet to be published.
		Ben Yagoda is the first account I have read that does not have a personal agenda or bias.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0684816059 (2704 words)

	'About Town: The New Yorker And The World It Made' by Ben Yagoda
		Yagoda excerpted some of the responses at the beginning of what became his brilliant and exhaustive history of the magazine, one he says “resonates throughout the culture.” All the letters belied a passion that made Yagoda think the responders said to themselves, “I thought you’d never ask!”
		Yagoda writes about the magazine across the board -- from detailing how the cartoons changed over the years to the rise of New Yorker fiction writers John Updike, J.D. Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov and others -- but what stands out about the book is the devotion of Ross and, later, William Shawn.
		Yagoda says that what has kept readers so hooked all these years was Ross’ initial “inordinate respect, bordering on reverence” for facts and humor.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20000326review463.asp (800 words)

	Ben Yagoda completes new book with Dr. Ruth (07-18-96)
		Yagoda first met Dr. Ruth through his agent when she was seeking an author to help her write her life story.
		For The Value of Family, Yagoda and Dr. Ruth had brainstorming sessions on what constitutes a family today and on family issues-from teenage pregnancy and increased divorce rate to mothers in the workplace and the role of fathers.
		Yagoda did most of the research for the book, interviewing experts, reading background material and collecting demographic information on which much of the book is based.
	www.udel.edu /PR/UpDate/96/37/3.html (774 words)

	On The Media-- Land of the Free
		BEN YAGODA: Freelancers commonly are paid what's called "on publication." You have to propose the idea, do the reporting, do the writing, finally, you hope, get it accepted, and then wait a couple of weeks, a month, a couple of months for it to be published.
		BOB GARFIELD: Ben, 23 or 24 years ago you were a Senior Editor at Philadelphia Magazine and I did a freelance piece for you for which I was paid the sum of 500 dollars.
		BEN YAGODA: To become a freelancer you feel that you have to create a brand and have one idea and parlayed it into eight different publications.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_092305_freedom.html (926 words)

	Letters - Salon
		Ben Yagoda's scathing indictment of the current crime and detective fiction genre struck me as curiously self-serving.
		Yagoda outlined his case against this current crop of writers by selectively "cherry-picking" evidence to support his case like he was Dick Cheney's chief of staff, running a shadow intelligence operation out of the Office of the Vice President.
		While it's clear that his attack is on the "big guns" of the genre, his implication is that the modern mystery novel in general is overrated and that mystery novels today pale in comparison to the classics of the genre.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/letters/2004/01/08/mysteries/index.html (1207 words)

	The Sound On The Page By Ben Yagoda
		Yagoda instead sets his sights on how writers go about creating a distinctive style as they put their words down on paper.
		Yagoda invites several friends over and has them attempt to identify several writers just by reading some of their work.
		Yagoda has put together a tremendous writing resource for those interested not only in the craft of writing but also in how powerful the medium can be.
	www.myshelf.com /writing/04/soundonthepage.htm (296 words)

	The New Yorker, Ben Yagoda, About Town
		According to Yagoda, the magazine built its success by establishing a concept, and then letting the contributors stretch that concept.
		Which is, indeed, the backbone of Yagoda's work: he has had access to papers going back before the time when the New Yorker was the New Yorker.
		On the subject of verse, by the way, and not unlike Ross, Yagoda tends to be somewhat blind.
	www.ralphmag.org /new-yorkerZL.html (2319 words)

	About Town : The New Yorker and the World It Made (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ben Yagoda's About Town is the first, however, to concentrate on the magazine itself, rather than the personalities who shaped it.
		Yagoda provides a window on a lost age--New York in the '20s, '30s, and '40s before the advent of television, when magazines and newspapers were at the center of the nation's cultural and intellectual life.
		And it is to Ross that Yagoda and the reader owe much of About Town, for it seems The New Yorker's founding editor kept meticulous records--as did those with whom he worked.
	www.historyuniverse.com /bookstore2/0684816059AMUS138354.shtml (701 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Letters
		To take Yagoda's earth-shattering discovery that choosing a book because of its blurbs leads to nothing but disappointment as a basis for declaring that "the American detective novel may be commercially viable, but it is devoid of creative or artistic interest" is just plain idiotic.
		Ben Yagoda's article on the modern crime novel mentions a number of acclaimed crime novelists (including Dennis Lehane, George P. Pelecanos and Robert Crais) without indicating that he's actually read them.
		Ben Yagoda's "The Case of the Overrated Mystery Novel" is, to put it bluntly, a lazy bit of cheap sensationalism, written and published because making fans angry is the surest way to provoke responses and make it look like the writer has written something "edgy" and "important."
	archive.salon.com /books/letters/2004/01/08/mysteries/print.html (3628 words)

	Mystery Scene Magazine
		To my surprise, I found Yagoda's piece to be awfully civil for an "attack." Even more surprisingly, I found myself agreeing with him on a few points.
		Another thing Yagoda doesn't take into account is that all of us scribblers work in the most inefficient business in the history of capitalism.
		Ben Yagoda has an interesting article on Salon.com called "The Case of the Overrated Mystery Novel." He gives his opinion of the quality of several current writers as compared with Chandler and Ross Macdonald.
	www.mysteryscenemag.com /feature2a.html (516 words)

	Ben Yagoda’s “About Town : The New Yorker and The World It Made”
		To appreciate it's place in the American psyche it is worth revisiting it's decades long history as Ben Yagoda has done in "About Town: The New Yorker and The World It Made".
		Yagoda had free reign of the internal papers and correspondence of The New Yorker and willing participation from many of her former writers and editors.
		Another great work of literary journalism described by Ben Yagoda is Lillian Ross's description of the making of the John Huston movie "The Red Badge of Courage".
	walkerrowe.com /abouttown.html (992 words)

	H-Net Review: Millie Jackson on About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made
		Yagoda opens the book with quotes from long-time New Yorker readers, seeking through a survey to discover what kept them reading over the years.
		Yagoda shows how rituals were not only important to the readers, but also to the editors and the writers on the staff of The New Yorker.
		Yagoda concentrates on the Harold Ross and William Shawn years, choosing to gloss over the recent history of the magazine.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=26528966983704 (845 words)

	Ben Yagoda Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Yagoda offers an in-depth look at the importance of a writer's individual style or "voice," based on interviews with more than 40 outstanding contemporary writers.
		In her own inimitable style, Dr. Westheimer shows that families are under siege, explains why the definition of family is at a historical turning point, and, together with coauthor Ben Yagoda, offers...
		Dr. Ruth Westheimer and Ben Yagoda try to define what it means to be a family in contemporary America.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Ben_Yagoda (702 words)

	Professor explores style in ‘The Sound on the Page’
		To learn about style, Yagoda went directly to the source—writers of all kinds, from poets to humorists to novelists—and asked them their definitions and views of style and the influences of other writers upon them.
		Yagoda also discusses e-mail (“thumbs up to slang, brevity and contractions”) and writing for the web (“a medium for some fresh and intriguing styles and voices”).
		A graduate of Yale, Yagoda has a master’s degree in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania and joined the UD faculty in 1992.
	www.udel.edu /PR/UDaily/2005/jul/yagoda090904.html (746 words)

	Amazon.com: About Town: The New Yorker and The World It Made: Books: Ben Yagoda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The work of Ben Yagoda brings the magazine alive, from the heyday of such luminaries as Thurber and White to the tough war years, right up through the Shawn era and even right up to (for 1999) the present.
		Through it all, Yagoda examines the many lives who devoted themselves to this literary exercise in humor and good faith.
		Yagoda presents the results of his exhaustive research with clarity and style.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684816059?v=glance (3610 words)

	Assessing Michiko Kakutani. By Ben Yagoda
		Christopher Beam, Ben Crair, Melonyce McAfee, Noam Rudnick, and Zuzanna Kobrzynskipolitics
		In 2003, Meghan O'Rourke remembered the New York Times Book Review's brief golden age (1971-1975); and in 1998, Jacob Weisberg declared the publication's whole history a snooze.
		Ben Yagoda is the author of The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing, and, forthcoming in October, If You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse.
	www.slate.com /id/2139452/nav/tap1 (1767 words)

	Gator Springs Gazette
		Yagoda gives us the following non-literary example of style: Michael Jordan and Jerry West both make twenty-foot jump shots, but what makes them unique is style, how they do it, i.e., overtly or quietly, with flair or in a matter-of-fact-get-the-job-done manner.
		Yagoda emerged from his studies and interviews with a paradox: "many craft-of-writing books purporting to be about style were unable—or possibly unwilling—to endorse that style is individual.
		Yagoda points out the inconsistencies in Strunk & White, quasi-religiously used as the arbiter of style for most of the 20th century.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /fandango.virtual/gator/qob_page_20.htm (653 words)

	The Chronicle: 8/13/2004: Style: a Pleasure for the Reader, or the Writer?
		Everyone understands that the content is constant, frequently ordinary, and sometimes banal; that the (wide) variation, the arena for expression and excellence, the fun, the art -- are all in the individual style.
		I profess journalism, where stylistic idiosyncrasy and even individuality are universally deemed no-nos, notwithstanding the fact that such journalists as Richard Ben Cramer, Russell Baker, and Susan Orlean have outstanding and unmistakable styles.
		Ben Yagoda is a professor of English at the University of Delaware and author, most recently, of The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing, published this summer by HarperCollins.
	chronicle.com /free/v50/i49/49b01601.htm (2625 words)

	Washington College \| Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The event is free and the public is invited to attend.
		Yagoda is the author of the critically acclaimed books About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made (Scribner, 2000) and Will Rogers: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), and he is the co-editor of The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (Scribner, 1997).
		A graduate of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, Yagoda is an associate professor of English at the University of Delaware, where he teaches courses in journalism, literary non-fiction and non-fiction writing.
	www.washcoll.edu /wc/news/press_releases/04_02_09_yagoda.html (258 words)

	Poynter Online - Feedback
		Posted by Christopher Willard 11/24/2005 10:28:08 AM I' reading Ben Yagoda's book now -- Terrific read -- of course I like it because his thinking is in line with my own.
		I' reading Ben Yagoda's book now -- Terrific read -- of course I like it because his thinking is in line with my own.
		Style is important, post-structuralism, while it gave us some nice tools and viewpoints, didn't actually help many young authors or artists to improve their own craft.
	www.poynter.org /article_feedback/article_feedback_list.asp?id=85739 (186 words)

	The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing by Ben Yagoda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Over the course of his career, acclaimed author, teacher, and critic Ben Yagoda has uncovered one certain truth about writing: "Style matters." Indeed, it is frequently the case that our favorite writers entertain, move, and inspire us less by what they say than by how they say it.
		"[Ben Yagoda] is witty and offhandedly erudite and unafraid to read between the lines..."
		"Ben Yagoda [is] the best kind of close reader, attentive to writerly choices that most of us take for granted."
	www.harpercollins.com /book/index.aspx?isbn=9780066214177 (578 words)

	Ben Yagoda from HarperCollins Publishers
		Ben Yagoda is the author of About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Will Rogers.
		He is coeditor, with Kevin Kerrane, of The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The American Scholar, Esquire, and many other publications.
		Yagoda directs the journalism department at the University of Delaware, where he teaches nonfiction writing.
	www.harpercollins.com /author/index.aspx?authorid=10781 (175 words)

	Ruth, Dr Westheimer; Yagoda, Ben; Westheimer, Ruth K. - The Value Of Family: A Blueprint For The 21st Century (isbn ...
		Ruth, Dr Westheimer; Yagoda, Ben; Westheimer, Ruth K. - The Value of Family: A Blueprint for the 21st Century (ISBN 0446518751)
		Ruth, Dr Westheimer; Yagoda, Ben; Westheimer, Ruth K. The Value of Family: A Blueprint for the 21st Century
		Ruth, Dr Westheimer; Ben Yagoda; Ruth K. Westheimer -
	www.isbn.pl /I-0446518751 (932 words)

	Beatrice.com: Let's Get Him and Ben Yagoda Together in the Studio
		Let's Get Him and Ben Yagoda Together in the Studio
		As the headline observes, this ain't exactly Yagoda's examplar of nonfiction:
		The plain, sad reality--I report this following four full days studying the work--is that The 9/11 Commission Report, despite the vast quantity of labor behind it, is a cheat and a fraud.
	www.beatrice.com /archives/000931.html (135 words)

	WebCalendar
		UD English Professor Ben Yagoda will be a speaker at the 21st annual "The Land and Sea Lecture Series." His talk, "My Life as a Hack," will include a discussion of his career as a freelance writer.
		The first lecture is scheduled at 10 a.m.
		For more information, call the Office of Alumni and University Relations at (302) 735-8200.
	www.english.udel.edu /calendar/view_entry.php?id=79&date=20060302 (93 words)

	Random House \| Books \| If You Catch an Adjective, Kill It by Ben Yagoda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In his waggish yet authoritative book, Ben Yagoda has managed to undo the dark work of legions of English teachers and libraries of dusty grammar texts.
		Laugh when Yagoda says he “shall call anyone a dork to the end of his days” who insists on maintaining the distinction between shall and will.
		Read, and discover a book whose pop culture references, humorous asides, and bracing doses of discernment and common sense convey Yagoda’s unique sense of the “beauty, the joy, the artistry, and the fun of language.”
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl/9780767920773.html (294 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Letters
		Read our exclusive interview with Aimee Bender, and save 30% on Willful Creatures
		"I'm not the least bit surprised Yagoda hasn't run into any good crime fiction...
		Maya Angelou reads from "The Heart of a Woman"
	archive.salon.com /books/letters/2004/01/08/mysteries (1224 words)

	Random House \| Authors \| Ben Yagoda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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		In his waggish yet authoritative book, Ben Yagoda has managed to undo the dark work of legions of English teachers and libraries of dusty grammar...
	www.randomhouse.com /author/results.pperl?authorid=33882 (129 words)

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