New Yorker Editor on “Where the Readers Are”; More Spills with Woodman & BEK

From The Guardian, this interesting interview with The New Yorker‘s current editor, David Remnick. A former New Yorker editor, Tina Brown, chimes in as well.  [photo: Laura Barisonzi] note: in the paragraph excerpted below  you’ll notice the mention of “Gadd” cartoons. The word should be “gag” It would be wrong to see the circulation success as the triumph of seriousness.

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BEK & Liana Finck at Williamstown Film Festival; Video: Marchetto on Good Day New York

Bruce Eric Kaplan and Liana Finck will appear October 16th at The Williamstown Film Festival.  Some info here (scroll down to “On Screen, a revamped film festival”)     ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Marisa Acocella Marchetto was on Good Day NY this morning.  See the video clip here. 

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Interviews: Carolita Johnson, BEK; A Very Close-look at The New Yorker’s Tenth Issue

From ladycollective.com, April 17, 2015, “Schoolin’ Life: Carolita Johnson” — this interview with Ms. Johnson   ___________________________________________________________________________________ From publicradioeast.org, April 25, 2015, “Not My Job: New Yorker Cartoonist ‘BEK’ Gets Quizzed on Burger King” — an audio interview with Bruce Eric Kaplan.     ___________________________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery continues its fascinating close-look series at The New Yorker’s earliest issues. Issue #10

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