A New Play, “Thurber: Not Unmeaningless” Comes To Cape May, NJ From New Jersey Stage, September 1, 2025, “Classic American Tales Presents Humorous Stories At The Dormer House” — word of a new play to be staged September 11th: “Thurber: Not Unmeaningless comes to The Dormer House on September 11, part of a new solo play conceived, compiled, and edited
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To celebrate the 4th, here’s an Anatol Kovarsky (proposed) New Yorker cover sketch (the sketch appeared on The Spill sometime back. Courtesy of Mr. Kovarsky’s estate). Anatol Kovarsky’s A-Z entry: Anatol Kovarsky (photo above, NYC, 2013. By Liza Donnelly) Born, Moscow. Died, June 1, 2016, NYC. Collection: Kovarsky’s World (Knopf, 1956) NYer work: 1947 -1969. Link to Ink Spill’s 2013
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Personal History: Cape May’s “Pink House” On this humid morning I decided to pinch a fan from my wife’s studio. I don’t think she’ll mind as she’s twenty-eight hundred miles away in Cal-i-forn-i-a. Heading out of her studio, fan in hand, I took a detour into a narrow adjacent room which is home to some of our New Yorker odds
Read moreHere’s something from the archives — an end of summer piece I submitted to The New Yorker back in the early 1980s. Just a few summers earlier (1976 to be exact) I was a college student working behind the bar and in the kitchen of a restaurant in Cape May making Oceanburgers and the like. This proposed (and rejected) cover
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