Articles From 'An Editors Burial' Ranked

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James Baldwin My ranking of the chapters/ articles of the New Yorker anthology An Editor’s Burial as I was reading. Included in the book is journalism that served as inspiration for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch (a brilliant movie that deserved more than it got). I think the book’s quality and thematic cohesion wavers towards the middle but is saved in the end by superb writing from Baldwin, Liebling, and White.

  1. Art Talker - Calvin Tomkins
  2. Dearest Edith - Janet Flanner
  3. Mr Hulot - Lillian Ross
  4. Here at The New Yorker - Brendan Gill
  5. Wallcott Gibs - E.B. White
  6. Remembering Mr Shawn - Ved Mehta
  7. Harold Ross: A Recollection - S.M. Behrman
  8. H.W. Ross - E.B. White
  9. The Years with Ross - James Thurber
  10. The Days of Duveen - S.M. Behrman
  11. The Pilot Light - A conversation between Wes Anderson and Susan Morrison
  12. The Events in May: A Paris Notebook Part 1 - Mavis Gallant
  13. The Other Paris - Luc Sante
  14. Letters from The New Yorker Archives
  15. Memoirs of a Feeder in France: A Good Appetite - A.J. Liebling
  16. Memoirs of a Feeder in France: Just Enough Money - A.J. Liebling
  17. Thirty-two Rats from Casablanca - Joseph Mitchell
  18. Equal in Paris - James Baldwin

On the whole I enjoyed the writing that had at least a unique style or a shred of humour.