In a year celebrating a centennial, it’s natural to look back. And so off we go through the time tunnel to 1932 and to the Fifth New Yorker Album of drawings (or, cartoons, if you prefer). Why the Fifth? Because it’s Thurber Thursday, and the Fifth’s Foreword was written by James Thurber. I enjoy re-reading The New Yorker Album Forewords.
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The New Yorker’s 100th Celebration: Video Of Interest… David Remnick On The Daily Show Here’s The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick on The Daily Show, talking New Yorker history and current politics with Jon Stewart. Nice seeing Eustace Tilley there too! _____________________________________________________________________________ Great Book: The Complete Book Of Covers From The New Yorker: 1925-1989 Back in the late 1980s, when
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Yet Another Steinberg Take-Off Should Saul Steinberg’s work be remembered in the future decades it will be for his “View Of The World” piece that appeared on the cover of the March 29, 1976 New Yorker. In Deirdre Bair’s biography of Steinberg we learned that Steinberg went from cool (“cool” being an understatement) to warm (“warm” in this case meaning
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On this happy occasion of the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker, it’s instructive to look at the second issue of the magazine, dated February 28, 1925. Was it perhaps too soon for Harold Ross to look back (one week!) critically on his debut issue? From everything I’ve read about Ross, the answer is no. It has been said that
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