I’ve no idea how many cover variations there are for Thurber titles. Does anyone? (let me know if you do). Just about every Thurber search I do turns up a cover I’m not familiar with. For instance: this Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973 paperback: I kind’ve like its simplicity. But still, I prefer most of the other versions I’ve seen. I
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Latest addition To The Spill Library: Selected Letters Of John Updike Just out yesterday: The Selected Letters of John Updike, edited by James Schiff (Knopf). I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book, knowing (or at least hoping) that there’d be a number of references to New Yorker artists and art. I was not disappointed (you can see in the accompanying photo
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_____________________________________________________________________________ Fave Photo Of The Week: Cartoonists At “Women Laughing” Screening Liza Donnelly’s Women Laughing documentary film was screened at The Montclair Film Festival on Sunday. There was a panel discussion afterwards with the above New Yorker cartoonists. left to right: Emily Sanders Hopkins, Emily Flake, Ms. Donnelly, Amy Hwang, and Bishakh Som. Marquee photo: Nathalie Seaver (a Women Laughing
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Fifteen cartoonists, fifteen cartoons. No newbies, and no duos, that we know of. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of July 3,
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