Sunday Spill: Reminder…Paul Karasik NYC Talk & Signing Tomorrow; Gretchen Dow Simpson’s NYTs Obit; The Tilley Watch Online, April 21-25, 2025

Reminder: Paul Karasik At Rizzoli This Monday

Paul Karasik will be speaking about, and signing, Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy  this Monday.

Mr. Karasik began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. Visit his website here.

 

 

 

 

 

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Gretchen Dow Simpson’s New York Times Obit

The New York Times has published an obit for Gretchen Dow Simpson.

Interesting how the Times’s reporter, Alex Williams closed it out:

“Her long run at The New Yorker ended in 1993, the year after Tina Brown, the swashbuckling former editor of Vanity Fair, took over and ushered in a series of sweeping changes, including more topical and gag covers in place of the traditional stately ones that had served as artworks in their own right.

As Ms. Simpson later recalled, Ms. Brown “did buy one painting to be used as a cover, but only because it reminded her of her own property in the Hamptons.”

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The Tilley Watch Online, April 21-25, 2025

An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features

Daily Cartoon: Polly Adams, Anjali Chandrashekar, Juliana Castro Varon, Barbara Smaller, Ali Solomon.

See them here, slide show style

 

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