New YorkerestThe best of every New Yorker issue, since 1925

October 14, 1939

The New Yorker cover for October 14, 1939

Featured Pick

profiles

HOW TO WIN PROFITS AND INFLUENCE LITERATURE--III

Geoffrey T. Hellman

PROFILE of Simon & Schuster, publishers, tells about the biggest literary hoax of the century. It involved Joan Lowell (Helen Joan Wagner's "Cradle of …