About Me
Erin Overbey has been an archivist at The New Yorker for more than twenty-five years. She helmed and wrote The New Yorker’s most popular newsletter, New Yorker Classics, with the highest unique open rate (70%+) ever of any newsletter at the magazine. She has worked with numerous writers and journalists in Manhattan, and has written about Wes Anderson’s film, “The French Dispatch,” a rare edition of John Hersey’s Hiroshima, Maurice Sendak’s illuminating life, and more. She has appeared in “The New Yorker Presents” on Amazon Prime (2016) and was a panelist at the New York Public Library’s Inaugural Spring launch event on John Hersey and “Hiroshima” earlier this year.
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“Curdled joie de vivre” —Gawker
*Sigh* —The Daily Mail, The New York Post, The Daily Beast, etc.
“Contrast her case with that of Jeffrey Toobin… To get the same treatment as Overbey, Toobin had to literally expose himself in a video meeting… Adding insult to injury, Overbey was doing genuinely unique and interesting work at the Archives desk, while Toobin’s political and legal analysis usually boiled down to saying something like ‘wowzers.’” —Dame Magazine
“The notion that what happens at The New Yorker should stay at The New Yorker, institutional etiquette that is absolutely playing into [the magazine’s] reaction to Overbey’s tweets.” —FridayThings
“Thank you for all the intelligence and taste you bring to this thing of ours.” —David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker
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