From The Sports Desk: Jason Chatfield On The New Yorker vs New York Magazine — Jason Chatfield will be covering New Yorker baseball news for the Spill, sending in dispatches all season from the field. Here’s his report on the June 7th 2022 game: The New Yorker softball team played their first match for the season last night, albeit in
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The New Yorker’s Roger Angell Has Died Here’s The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick on Mr. Angell, who died today at age 101. And here’s The New York Times obit, written by Dwight Garner. Here’s a link to Mr. Angell’s wonderful piece on New Yorker cartoons, “Congratulations! It’s A Baby” that appeared in the magazine December 15, 1997: (sorry,
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Mike Twohy Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Mike Twohy, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1980, is this week’s guest on the always entertaining Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Shown in the screen grab above, clockwise from the upper left: Mike Twohy, and the hosts, Beth Lawler, Vin Coca, and Paul Nesja. Listen
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Interview Of Interest: Edward Sorel From “Person Place And Thing with Randy Cohen,” this 27 minute interview with the great Ed Sorel, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1990. Mr. Sorel talks Art Young, Graydon Carter, Lee Lorenz, Edward G. Robinson, and Barry Goldwater, among others. Ed Sorel will forever be remembered as the cover artist for Tina
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