Latest Addition To The Spill Library: The Last Flower A big thank you to Sara Thurber Sauers for this University of Iowa Press edition of James Thurber’s The Last Flower. Originally published in November of 1939 by Harper’s, The Last Flower has shown itself to “have legs.” Legend, according to Thurber himself, has it that the entire book was completed
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The 2026 Monthly/Weekly Agenda Calendar While browsing New Yorker “product” online today I came across the below “New Yorker Magazine 2026 Monthly/Weekly Agenda” — something new to me (if it’s not new product, someone please let me know. An online search for a 2025 version turned up nothing). Unlike the long-running hard cover book-like New Yorker Desk Diary, the Agenda
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Peter Arno, In The New Yorker, 99 Years Ago This Week Looking through the January 23, 1926 (nearly one year old) New Yorker, you might expect it to be chock full of captioned drawings (a caption, for our purposes, is defined as text, enclosed in quotes, said by a character in the drawing). Or, if the issue wasn’t chock full,
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Three New Books On The Horizon Tom Toro posted on social media the news of a collection, And To Think We Started As A Book Group, coming out this Fall. (Andrews McMeel publishing). Thanks to Stephen Nadler of
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