In Conversation: Roz Chast & Alison Bechdel Circle your calendar for May 4th: Long-time New Yorker contributor, Roz Chast (shown above right) will be in (online) conversation with Alison Bechdel via the 92nd St. Y. All the info here. _______________________________________________________________ Felipe Galindo’s “Taking Liberties” Exhibition & Book Felipe Galindo, (akak Feggo) who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2002,
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Bruce McCall downsizes the Chrysler Building. Here’s a link to a brief Q&A with the artist (bonus: within this Q&A there’s a link to his current exhibit of work at The New York Historical Society). The Issue:
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Early Posting: A Roz Chast Sketchpad Sometimes we get an early release cover, and other times we get a humor piece. Today it’s the latter. From next week’s (double) issue, dated April 26 & May 3, 2021, here’s Ms. Chast’s Sketchpad feature, “Fending And Other Terms For Fridge-Foraging Dinners” Chast began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978. Visit her
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Thumb through the Index of nearly any book about a New Yorker writer from the golden age of the magazine and you’ll find at least one mention of James Thurber. I semi-randomly took two books off the shelf this morning and found the following quotes from John Cheever, and Truman Capote. While Cheever’s Thurber mention is mainly about Harold Ross
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Two Classifications Of New Yorker Cartoons If you look at Wolcott Gibbs‘s Foreward in Charles Addams’s 1947 cartoon collection, Addams And Evil, you’ll find this interesting opening sentence. Mr. Gibbs goes on to use Helen Hokinson as an example of an artist who contributed “straight” cartoons, and Addams as “nutty.” Mr. Gibbs describes Ms. Hokinson as a “social critic” with
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