A Year’s Work

  I’ve written before about the work folders I keep: subject folders, with headings such as Food, Dragons, Dogs, etc., but I don’t think I ever mentioned my other set: the monthly folders containing my day-to-day work.     Each monthly folder contains everything I worked on each day.  The saved pages contain a mixed bag of sentences, sentence fragments,

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Shanahan’s Daily; Roberts Mankoffed

  The New Yorker’s Daily Cartoonist now features Danny Shanahan. Also of interest,  Shanahan-wise, is his new Facebook page “Danny Shanahan — New Yorker Cartoonist.”  It’s only a few days old but is already nicely overflowing with cartoons and photographs.   Victoria Roberts new book, After the Fall has received two newyorker.com notices: What We’re Reading and New Yorker Cartoon

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E.B. White’s Lady is Cold Cover Surprise

      This morning’s outside temperature of 8 degrees made me think of the cover of The Lady is Cold,  E.B. White’s first book, published in 1929. I knew of the book — a collection of his poetry published in The New Yorker and FPA’s column, The Conning Tower — because I’ve had the cover image on my desktop

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