The author, David Langton, shares his dream of being in the New Yorker magazine.In the 1980s, the author received a subscription to the New Yorker but didn't initially want it, fearing influence from the cartoons.The author developed admiration for Robert Leighton, an artist whose cartoons got published in the New Yorker.The author reflects on the New Yorker's history and references the Algonquin Round Table.