In Popular Culture
- In the third chapter of the 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the narrator, Nick Carraway, mentions that he "took dinner usually at the Yale Club", when describing his life as a bonds broker in New York.
- In his weekly column titled "My Turn," author John O'Hara once lamented, "If Yale had given me a degree, I could have joined the Yale Club, where the food is pretty good, the library is ample and restful, the location convenient, and I could go there when I felt like it without sponging off friends. They also have a nice-looking necktie." O'Hara lamented his lack of a Yale degree so often that his friend Ernest Hemingway joked that a collection should be taken up to send O'Hara to Yale.
- Frank Mankiewicz described John Lindsay as "the only populist in history who plays squash at the Yale Club."
- In the 1991 novel American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman gets up to use the restroom during lunch at the Yale Club, where to his chagrin he discovers that his coworker Luis Carruthers is in love with him. The chapter is titled "Yale Club."
- In the 5th season (1993) episode of the CBS television sitcom Murphy Brown titled "The Egg and I," when recounting the events that led to George H.W. Bush banning Murphy Brown from the White House, colleague Jim Dial mentions an "unfortunate incident in the steam room of the Yale Club."
- In Nothing Can Keep Us Together (2005), the eighth novel in the Gossip Girl series by Cecily von Ziegesar, Blair Waldorf lives in the Yale Club for a short period of time and holds her graduation party there.
- On the April 17, 2008, episode of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, while commenting on "Elitist Persecution," correspondent and Yale alumnus John Hodgman declared, "As an elitist myself, I've had enough! Or, as we say at the Yale Club, ' Ça suffit! '"
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