Celebrating 100 Years: Jia Tolentino and Roz Chast Decide Favorites from the Archive

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Workers writers and contributors are celebrating The New Yorker’s centennial by revisiting notable works from the journal’s archive, in a collection known as Takes. The author Jia Tolentino and the cartoonist Roz Chast be part of the Radio Hour to current their choices. Tolentino discusses an essay by a genius observer of American life, the late Joan Didion, about Martha Stewart. Didion’s profile, “everywoman.com,” was printed in 2000, and Tolentino finds in it a protection of perfectionism and a sure type of ruthlessness: she means that “a lot of the strains Didion writes about Stewart, it’s exhausting to not hear the echoes of individuals saying that about her.” Chast selected to give attention to cartoons by George Sales space, who contributed to The New Yorker for at the least half of the journal’s life.

You’ll be able to learn Roz Chast on George Sales space, Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion, and lots of extra essays from the Takes collection right here.

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