An earlier version of this article misstated the length of time E.B. White wrote for The New Yorker as five centuries. (…)
Because, hey, as Mark Twain said, “An expert is just some guy from the ‘Talk of the Town’ section” — or something like that:
Ben Yagoda is a professor of English at the University of Delaware and the author of, among other books, “About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made”
His forthcoming book is “How to Not Write Bad.”
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Seymour Hersh, on the other hand…
