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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Book/Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll+++ Southern ZC6 N68 1978	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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[24] p. in various pagings : ill., ports.; 58 x 38 cm.

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Vol. I, no. 1 strike parody of the New York Times published October 23, 1978.
Printed in NYT format, with NYT type faces and lay-outs.
"All the News Not Fit to Print," parody of NYT motto, within rectangle in upper left corner of p. 1.
In three sections, 8 p. each: A, B, C.
The New York Times parody issue was conceived and organized by Christopher Cerf with the assistance of writers George Plimpton, Freddy Plimpton, Rustine ("Rusty") Unger, and the British-born satirist Tony Hendra during New York City's 2-month-old pressman's strike, which had shut down all NYC newspapers.
In the wake of the 33-day reign of John Paul I in Aug.-Sept. 1978, Hendra posed for the front-page picture for the story about the Liverpudlian "Pope John Paul John Paul I," who "served as pope for 19 minutes," under headline "Pope Dies Yet Again; Reign is Briefest Ever; Cardinals Return From Airport."
Other contributors include: Washington Post columnist Carl Bernstein, Vietnam War journalist Frances FitzGerald, Newsweek's Saigon bureau chief Kevin Buckley, social and political commentator Michael J. Arlen, novelist Jerzy Kosinski, screenwriter and novelist Terry Southern, and screenwriter Nora Ephron.
All bylines are aliases parodying NYT reporters, feature columnists, critics, and op-ed columnists.
Christopher Cerf is an author, a Grammy Award-winning composer, and the co-creator of the PBS literacy education show "Between the Lions."

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Call Number

Berg Coll+++ Southern ZC6 N68 1978

OCLC

4405139

Title

Not the New York times.

Imprint

New York : Not the New York Times, 1978.

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Local Note

Berg Collection copy formerly owned by Terry Southern and acquired with the Terry Southern Archive in 2003.

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Arlen, Michael J. Contributor

Bernstein, Carl, 1944- Contributor

Buckley, Kevin. Contributor

Cerf, Christopher. Editor

Ephron, Nora, contributor.

FitzGerald, Frances, 1940- Contributor

Hendra, Tony. Contributor

Kosinski, Jerzy, 1933-1991. Contributor

Plimpton, Freddy. Contributor

Plimpton, George, contributor.

Southern, Terry. Contributor

Unger, Rustine. Contributor

Southern, Terry. Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+++ Southern ZC6 N68 1978