From newyorker.com, this tongue-in-cheek video explaining how the magazine’s Talk of the Town stories are selected. Appearing are The New Yorker’s Nancy Franklin, Hendrik Hertzberg, Rebecca Mead, Susan Morrison, Nick Paumgarten, Lizzie Widdicombe, and David Remnick. Also appearing is Jonathan Goldsmith, the actor who plays The Most Interesting Man in the World on TV Richard Gehr interviews Roz Chast
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Video: Mankoff, Sipress
From Youtube, this 25 minute video of an appearance on “CityWide” with David Sipress and The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff.
Read moreBooth teams with Cosby again
From the Republican Journal, June 10, 2011, “Comedian Bill Cosby hits the civic center stage” ( with some George Booth content, including word on the upcoming Cosby book, I Didn’t Ask to be Born, but I’m Glad I Was, illustrated by Booth).
Read moreAddams’ boyhood home open house; Thurber Unabridged Audio Collection released
From Westfield Patch, June 6, 2011, “Crowds Peer Into Addams Family History” — Charles Addams’ Westfield, New Jersey boyhood home opens its doors. HarperCollins is releasing The Unabridged James Thurber Audio Collection on June 7, 2011. Read all about it here. Keith Olbermann reads Thurber’s fables and selected stories.
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