Joseph Goodrich, a writer in the Hostos President’s Office, recently published a book, People in a Magazine: The Selected Letters of S. N. Behrman and his Editors at The New Yorker.

Joe Goodrich book coverThe book is a collection of correspondence, editorial notes, inter-office memos, and other documents  Goodrich edited and annotated to tell the story of the playwright/essayist/biographer S. N. Behrman's 43-year relationship with The New Yorker magazine.

The New Yorker said about the work: “To read these dazzling letters between him and his editors is to know Behrman better in all his wit, drive, and penchant for social observation.”

The book is available on Amazon HERE.

Joseph Goodrich is a playwright whose work has been produced across the United States and published by Samuel French, Playscripts, and Applause Books, among others. He is the editor of Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947–1950. An alumnus of New Dramatists, he is a former Stanford Calderwood Fellow at the MacDowell Colony.