Swearing Firsts in the New Yorker

Sam Riley bio ↓ · May 31st, 2011 · filed under Other

The New Yorker’s history of expletive usage and pioneering is recounted by the Awl in list-form. Times have changed, along with the editors at the New Yorker and this in turn, has changed how often profanity appears in the magazine. Also, Gabriel Garcia Marquez made the list of offenders twice.

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Sam Riley is the Editorial Assistant at the Rumpus. Also, a humor enthusiast and science supporter. She currently resides in San Francisco, CA. More from this author →

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Cliff Milledge Says:
May 31st, 2011 at 12:20 pm
This timeline explains why my catholic high school pulled the NYer from the magazine shelf in 1993.

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