A good many books anchoring the Spill‘s library — books heavily favoring text over cartoons that is — are books by and about the White and Angell family. After hearing of Roger Angell’s passing yesterday, I spent some time looking over these books. I keep them on the shelf together — a never ending family reunion. You can’t really think
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The New Yorker’s Roger Angell Has Died Here’s The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick on Mr. Angell, who died today at age 101. And here’s The New York Times obit, written by Dwight Garner. Here’s a link to Mr. Angell’s wonderful piece on New Yorker cartoons, “Congratulations! It’s A Baby” that appeared in the magazine December 15, 1997: (sorry,
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3 More Thurber At Auction The latest Swann Illustration auction catalog is now online. Among the work by New Yorker contributors Charles Addams, William Steig, Edward Sorel, George Price, Lee Lorenz, R.O. Blechman, Frank Modell, John Held, Jr., Barbara Shermund, Rea Irvin, Mischa Richter, C.E.M. (Charles E. Martin), and Richard Taylor, are 3 drawings by James Thurber. “Are there
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62 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker If you’ve spent any time visiting this site you’ll know I like to occasionally pull bound volumes of New Yorkers off our shelves and discover what’s inside. Although I’ve been through each volume in the Spill’s library there’s always something or other I’ve missed. This morning I grabbed the April-May 1960
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