Mourning the Passing of the New Yorker

I liked your May 11 article on The New Yorker, which I have read for 40 years or more as a subscriber. I was surprised to see mention that (copy editor) Eleanor Gould was still there, because one of the things I have noticed with the new regime was that this area seems to have gotten sloppy.

The real zinger hit me in a “Talk” item which reported the woes of the Museum of the City of New York, with the comment that the collection “might have to be disbursed.”

I rubbed my eyes, thinking it might be a deliberate pun, but no. There it was, like a puppy’s indiscretion right in the middle of the rug.

I decided that one era of the New Yorker was indeed over. Although we might have some hopes for the quality of the new era, it would be different, as indeed it is.

FRED E. PAMP

Santa Ynez