Thurber Thursday: Personal History — The Thurber Article That Caused Me To Fly When I ran across the above small article in early 1987, I was in my mid 30s, and had yet to step foot in an airplane. I drove anywhere I needed to go outside of the New York/Metropolitan area. At the time the furthest south I’d traveled
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The Wednesday Watch; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Yesterday’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Article Of Interest On J.A.K.
Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon A newbie to newyorker.com, Hilary Allison, with a crisis goal. _______________________________________________________________ Yesterday’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist From Caitlin Cass, who began contributing to The New Yorker in August of 2018: “Some Causes Of Pandemic-Related Video Conflict” _______________________________________________________________ From Vice, April 29, 2020, “How Having OCD During A Pandemic Is Not A Superpower” — this
Read moreVideo Conversation Of Interest With Roz Chast; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Video Conversation of Interest With Roz Chast From The Center For Cartoon Studies, this short conversation between Roz Chast and Charles Forsman. Ms. Chast has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1978. Visit her website here. __________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Christopher Weyant on home deliveries. Mr. Weyant has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1998. Visit
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of May 4, 2020
The Cover: In Francoise Mouly’s Q&A with this week’s cover artist, Chris Ware, she informs us that the issue is anchored by “a kaleidoscopic account of a single day in New York.” And so we see a cover, in Mr. Ware’s patented style, loaded with snapshots of the city — a cover nearly devoid of people. The Cartoonists: Liza Donnelly,
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