A Miscellany Looking over items on my desktop this morning (not my “real” desktop — the one on my computer) I came across various items I’ve been saving for future Spill posts. I thought, hey wait a sec! Posting these as group is a Spill post. So here, in no particular order, and with little to connect them other than they’re
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3 More Thurber At Auction The latest Swann Illustration auction catalog is now online. Among the work by New Yorker contributors Charles Addams, William Steig, Edward Sorel, George Price, Lee Lorenz, R.O. Blechman, Frank Modell, John Held, Jr., Barbara Shermund, Rea Irvin, Mischa Richter, C.E.M. (Charles E. Martin), and Richard Taylor, are 3 drawings by James Thurber. “Are there
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Reminder: Liza Donnelly & Sara Lautman In Conversation At Politics & Prose Today at 7! Sara Lautman, (upper left) who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016 will be in conversation with Liza Donnelly, who began contributing to the magazine in 1979. All the info here ______________________________________________________________________________ From Roxie Munro: Studio share available starting June or July. My studiomate of the
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How wonderful to open yesterday’s New York Times and see the above. The piece, written by Janaki Challa, had been online for days on the Times website, but there’s something more, um, “real” about seeing an article in the actual publication. I have seen at least one online mention that Ms. Shermund’s passing in 1978 was “ignored” by the Times,
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