Ron Grossman: An ode to The New Yorker — from the Second City
by Ron Grossman, Los Angeles Times
Jan 04, 2019
3 minutes
Long ago, I came home from class one day to find my girlfriend pasting New Yorker magazine covers on a bathroom wall. She'd saved stacks of back issues, and by the time she finished, every wall in the room was a collage of the smart-set illustrations that were the publication's trademark.
We were students at the University of Chicago. She was there in self-imposed exile from New York, and I was a New York wannabe.
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