Evan’s Reviews > Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker > Status Update

After a weak start, I'm warming to Gibbs a bit. He's erudite and thoughtful without being highly intellectual. His musings seem small but his concerns bigger. It's ephemera but some of it has immediacy, especially the war stuff.

I thought the Navajo code-talkers would have been a military secret for obvious reasons, but here is Gibbs writing about it right in the open in The New Yorker in 1941.

The first few Talk of the Town pieces were weak but they are getting much better.