The New Yorker Radio Hour
The New Yorker Celebrates a Hundred Years as a Poetry and Fiction Tastemaker
04 Feb 2025
David Remnick talks with The New Yorker’s literary guiding lights: the fiction editor Deborah Treisman and the poetry editor Kevin Young. Treisman edited “A Century of Fiction in The New Yorker,” and Young edited “A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker,” both of which were published this month. “When you asked me to do this,” Young remarks to David Remnick, “I think my first response was, I’ve only wanted to do this since I was fifteen. . . . It was kind of a dream come true.” Treisman talks about the way that stories age, and the difficulty of selecting stories. “The thing to remember is that even geniuses don’t always write their best work right right off the bat. People make a lot of noise about rejection letters from The New Yorker that went to famous writers, or later-famous writers. And they were probably justified, those rejections.”
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. In February, just a couple of weeks from now, the New Yorker will mark its centenary, a hundred years of publishing. And yet, when we began, the New Yorker's founding editor, Harold Ross, saw the magazine almost purely as what he called a comic paper. Those first issues were light as air.
But once Ross made the crucial hire of Catherine White, an editor who insisted on bringing the best of fiction and poetry to the magazine, Things changed. And over a century's worth of issues, we've published an immense body of short fiction and poems.
I mean, The New Yorker has published in its history close to 14,000 pieces of fiction.
And so you went back and read every single one. And how many poems do we have? Any idea, Kevin?
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