The NYTs On Barbara Shermund: “Overlooked No More” Hurray for Barbara Shermund! The paper of record has finally got around to noting her life and work. The first Barbara Shermund obit — at least as far as I’ve been able to discover — was the notice, above left, published September 9, 1978. I found it online years ago in
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of February 7-11, 2022 An end of week listing of New Yorker artists who have contributed to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Sophie Lucido Johnson and Sammi Skolmoski, J.A.K., Amy Hwang, Paul Noth, Avi Steinberg. Daily Shouts: Jake Goldwasser: “Puppies Who Are Sad For Totally Legitimate Reasons” …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Trump To Kim:
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Latest Parody Addition To The Spill Library: “The New Yawker” From James Thurber’s alma mater, Ohio State University, and The Sun Dial (the O.S.U. magazine he wrote for and edited within the first decade of the 1900s): The New Yawker. Very pleased to have come across this copy (the only one I’ve seen) and added it to the collection*(see below
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Poking around Edwin Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography (Ohio State University Press, 1968) I came across wording I’d surely seen before but didn’t really think too much about. In the entry for Thurber & Company, published in 1966, five years after Thurber’s death, we see this: —Seven captions taken from A Thurber Carnival … are substituted for the
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