An E. Simms Campbell Original On Attempted Bloggery Attempted Bloggery shows us an original (non-New Yorker) original drawing by the late E. Simms Campbell. From my adventures online looking for/at original drawings, it’s always a treat to see one of Mr. Campbell’s original drawings show up — it doesn’t happen very often. Link here to see the Attempted Bloggery piece.
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Attempted Bloggery’s Copy Of Peter Schickele’s “Thurber’s Dogs” After finding a blurry image of this CD while roaming the internet, I went looking for a better one to show today, and wouldn’t you know it: a Spill fave blog, Attempted Bloggery already did a piece on this disc back in July 2017. Don’t know how I missed it, but I’m
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A 1976 William Hamilton Collection A regular stop when I visit Northampton, Massachusetts is The Raven, a terrif used bookstore located just off of Main Street. Although the comic/comix/cartoon section is small, I ran across a number of interesting New Yorker-centric titles while there yesterday, including Steinberg At The New Yorker, Roz Chast’s Can
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library In 1915, a decade before The New Yorker Magazine was born, the book you see above, Journeys To Bagdad, by Charles S. Brooks, was published by Yale University Press. One hundred-and-forty pages,
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