Thanks to the enormous generosity of a very good friend of the Spill, our Thurber original collection doubled in size recently, from one drawing to two — or has it tripled to three? The piece is unusual in that both sides contain original Thurber drawings. As you can see there’s an issue date on the piece: Aug 26,1939. Here’s how
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Twenty years ago(!) I contributed the below piece “Bad Batch” to the month long perch I occupied on newyorker.com (you can see all the pieces from that month if you go to Posted Notes on this site and scroll down a ways). This morning, while looking for a folder unrelated to bad batches, or any other kinds of batches, I
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Of all the New Yorker Albums published, it is the first one that sends off the biggest charge when I spot it on a shelf (honestly, it’s not hard to miss. I have one of the above copies set on a shelf with its cover facing out). Over time I’ve ended up with the three you see above, plus, I
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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: The artist is the one-and-only Edward Koren. How great is that! A brief Q&A with the artist here. A not-so-brief Q&A with him here. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Twelve cartoons, thirteen cartoonists (including the cover
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