fromThe New Yorker
10 hours agoEd Caesar on Nick Paumgarten's "Up and Then Down"
The shortest magazine pitch of Nick Paumgarten's life actually took place in an elevator, which the writer was sharing with an elevator-phobic editor, and consisted of a single word: "Elevators!" The article that followed, in April, 2008, is titled "Up and Then Down." It is the story of a man named Nicholas White-who was trapped in an elevator in the McGraw-Hill Building, in midtown Manhattan, for forty-one hours-and also a study of "elevatoring," a delicious word for the discipline of designing vertical transportation.
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