John Updike’s Want List At 17 Noted in the just published Selected Letters of John Updike, edited by James Schiff: a postcard sent by a 17 year old John Updike to Barnes & Noble, dated June 15, 1949, requesting the following books be held for him: ______________________________________________________________ Unfortunate Cover Art By now, I shouldn’t be surprised when I run across
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A Bonus Wednesday Spill Of Interest Longtime New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly teams up once again with historian, Heather Cox Richardson to note an important day in history. Today they focus on the 1929 stock market crash. See it here! Ms. Richardson (L) and Ms. Donnelly
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Personal History…Dust Jacket Of Interest…Addams’s Here At The New Yorker Charles Addams’s dust jacket art for Brendan Gill’s 1975 Here At The New Yorker remains, to this day, my favorite of all the books out there about the magazine. I was still in college the year the book was published; Gill’s book, along with Burton Bernstein’s Thurber: A Biography
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New Books: A Tallon Anthology, Tyler’s Ephemerata, Karasik’s Complete Hanks Here’s a really wonderful book: a (sort of) biography of New Yorker cover artist, Robert Tallon, published in 2024 by the National Museum of American Illustration & The American Illustrators Gallery (edited by Andrew Goffman). Mr. Tallon, who died in 2015, published thirty-three New Yorker covers, from the issue of
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