CBS Sunday Morning Profiles The New Yorker CBS News (especially CBS Sunday Morning) has truly been a broadcasting friend to The New Yorker over the years. It has profiled our current Cartoon Editor, Emma Allen, as well as the great cartoonist, George Booth and, some years back, a married New Yorker cartooning couple, as well as simply showing us an
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Weekend Spill: Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th…A Toast To Harold Ross
We’re just a couple of days from the publication of The New Yorker‘s 100th anniversary issue. I thought this as good a time as any to toast Harold Ross, the fellow who invented the magazine, along with his wife, Jane Grant. Together they figured out the look, the financing, and the content of (in Ms. Grant’s words) the “introductory number.”
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Friday Spill: Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: The 25th, 50th, and 75th Anniversary Issues; Audio Of Interest…New Yorker Editor David Remnick On The Brian Lehrer Show…GOAT Celebrates
Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: The 25th, 50th, and 75th Anniversary Issues I thought it would be fun on this Friday, the day The New Yorker‘s 100th Anniversary issue closes, and just days before it is published, to take a quick look at how the magazine celebrated its other “big” milestones. If you have a subscription, you can spend
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Thurber Thursday: Wall Art
There are plenty of stories of Thurber drawing on the walls of The New Yorker‘s offices, but sadly, only a few of those drawings survived. Directly below you see some of them in their original location at 25 West 43rd Street (photo taken by Liza Donnelly years and years ago on the day she and I stopped in to see
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