November 28, 2005

Greatest Bargain in Human History

THE COMPLETE NEW YORKER.

Every issue from 1925 to February 2005. Every cartoon, every article, every story, every poem, every ad, every cover, all in their original form on eight DVDs, with a 122-page companion book.

4,109 issues. Flaboyantly searchable in a multitude of modes. You can add your own stickie notes and compile reading lists of your favorites.

All Salinger's major short fiction. Almost all of Cheever's. Early Updike. Singer, Nabokov, Garcia Marquez, Munro...endless.

HIROSHIMA. IN COLD BLOOD. THE SNOW LEOPARD.

Pauline Kael on movies. Roger Angell on baseball. Whitney Balliett on jazz. A.J. Liebling on boxing. Joseph Mitchell on New York. Lillian Ross on Hemingway and Huston.

William Steig. Charles Addams. Peter Arno. William Hamilton. Roz Chast. Ziegler. Saul Steinberg.

All the Talk of the Town pieces, most of them with the authors identified.

$70 pre-holiday price with free shipping.

I just ordered it. I'm shaking. I've got chills all over.

Go over there and take the virtual tour. You may never come back...