Susanne Suba 1913 – 2012

      Word has reached Ink Spill this evening of the passing of Susanne Suba, whose five covers, one cartoon and numerous “spot” drawings began appearing in The New Yorker in the 1930s.   Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913, Ms. Suba came to the United States in 1920.  After studying at Pratt Institute in New York she headed

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Book of Interest: Conversations with William Maxwell

  Barbara Burkhardt, who wrote William Maxwell: A Literary Life (University of Mississippi Press, 2005) has edited Conversations with William Maxwell (University of Mississippi Press,  June, 2012. Maxwell, who joined The New Yorker in 1936, was originally hired as a hand holder for the Artists, taking over from Wolcott Gibbs, who had tired of the task.  The job required Maxwell

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