Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of The New Yorker’s legendary inner circle of charming, wisecracking, brilliant writers and editors in his recent publication Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker. He explains the way they transformed how life was perceived, interpreted, written about and published in America.

Thomas Vinciguerra is a founding editor of The Week and a regular contributor to The New York Times.