Video Of Interest: Emma Allen With Amy Kurzweil
“How To Draw Literary Cartoons” is the latest in a series of newyorker.com videos with The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen (above left) speaking with one of the magazine’s cartoonists. This time ’round it’s Amy Kurzweil (above right) who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016.
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From The Dept Of I Did Not Know That: Thanks McKelway!
I was re-reading William Shawn‘s obit of St. Clair McKelway last night and came upon the below passage. Strangely, the last two sentences of the clipped version I’m showing here had never stood out to me before the way they did not too many hours ago.
The last two sentences:
“Among other things, he established the principle that no two writers are alike, or should be expected to be alike, and that every writer’s individuality should be nurtured and catered to. (This principle was later broadened to take in our artists.)”
Well, thank you Mr. McKelway for establishing that principle. It seems so straightforwardly reasonable nowadays that that would be The New Yorker‘s principle — it’s difficult imagining it otherwise. Among my fondest of the many peculiar traits of the magazine, is how it treats its writers and artists.
A little more about St. Clair McKelway can be found here (note: the photo accompanying his Wikipedia entry is not The New Yorker‘s McKelway).
William Shawn’s New Yorker obit of McKelway appeared in the January 28, 1980 issue of the magazine. It ran a full page, and then some.
McKelway’s work was most recently anthologized (if that’s the right word) in Reporting At Wit’s End: Tales From The New Yorker (published in 2010 by Bloomsbury.) Intro by The New Yorker‘s Adam Gopnik
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