Friday Spill: Video Of Interest…Bruce Eric Kaplan; Event Of Interest…Two Poets & Two Cartoonists; Book Teasers From Karasik And Kuper; A Snippet Of Interest…Updike & Thurber

Video Of Interest: Bruce Eric Kaplan From Bruce Eric Kaplan, (his drawings are signed BEK) this promotional video for his new book, They Went Another Way.: A Hollywood Memoir (out October 22 from Henry Holt & Co.). Mr. Kaplan began contributing drawings to The New Yorker in 1991. ____________________________________________________________________________ Event Of Interest: Two Poets & Two Cartoonists Both Bob Eckstein

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Wednesday Spill: Bob Eckstein In Conversation At Writers Festival; Cartoonists Show Their Studios

                                  Bob Eckstein In Conversation At Writers Festival Bob Eckstein, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007, will be in conversation this Friday at the Milford Readers and Writers Festival. Information here. Mr. Eckstein’s latest book: _________________________________________________________________________ Cartoonists Show Their Studios  If

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Wednesday Spill: Book Of Interest…The Algonquin Roundtable: 25 Years With The Legends Who Lunch

Book Of Interest…The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with The Legends Who Lunch My cartoonist colleague, Bob Eckstein brought an episode of Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Show podcast to my attention this morning (thanks Bob!). Mr. Roth has interviewed Mirana Comstock, who edited (her grandfather) Konrad Bercovici’s The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years With The Legends Who Lunch — a

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