Tuesday Spill: A New Yorkery Summer Library

  For the past twenty-seven summers, my wife, Liza Donnelly, and I have gone to the same Downeast home, and over those years, have built a small library of books, some New Yorker-centric (but many having nothing to do with the magazine). Copies of all of The New Yorkery books in Maine are also in the Spill‘s library back home

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Friday Spill: Chris Weyant On The Caption Contest Podcast; A Mick Stevens Original Auctioned For A Song; Author Talk Of Interest: Liza Donnelly; Paul Karasik On Philip K. Dick; A New Yorker State Of Mind On The New Yorker’s 8th Anniversary Issue; More “Maus”

Chris Weyant On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast The 50th New Yorker Caption Contest Podcast has been posted with Chris Weyant as the guest. Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, and Vin Coca are the hosts. Hear it here.  Chris Weyant began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here.  –Clockwise from top left: Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, Chris

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Armed Services Editions: Thurber, Benchley, White, Arno, O’Hara, Parker, Woollcott & More

The Spill has been very fortunate over its decade plus span to receive numerous contributions to its archives. The latest is a treasure trove of Armed Services Editions from Prof. Brian Anderson of Central Piedmont Community College in Charlotte, NC..  Prof. Anderson, seeing an ASE-related post on this site, recently supplied a list of the New Yorker related editions as

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Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 4: Steinberg; Liza Donnelly Live-Draws The Late Show with Stephen Colbert; Rejected New Yorker Covers by Whittington, Higgins; Video: New York City in the 1920s

Steinberg did ad work?  You bet.  As with William Steig, a Steinberg Part 2 will be posted at some later time.  Warren Bernard,  Executive Director of SPX, is the one responsible for researching & gathering all these images. My thanks to Warren for allowing them to appear here. Here are the dates for these ads:  Emerson, 1948; House & Garden,

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