Wednesday Spill: Just Published…Ken Krimstein’s “Einstein In Kafkaland: How Albert Fell Down The Rabbit Hole And Came Up With The Universe”; Latest Addition To The Spill Library: “Writing For The New Yorker”; Event Of Interest…”Funny Stuff” Co-Authors in Conversation

                                    Out Now: Ken Krimstein’s Einstein In Kafkaland Ken Krimstein’s latest, Einstein In Kafkaland (Bloomsbury Publishing), is out now.  Mr. Krimstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2000. Here’s an excerpt from American Scientist Here’s a 6 minute NPR piece on Mr.

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Weekend Spill: New Yorker Cartoon Slide Show…”Oh, The Humidity” With Hokinson, Weber, Cotham and Fifteen More; The Tilley Watch Online, August 12-16, 2024; Book On The Horizon…”Singular Sensations: A Cultural History Of One-Panel Comics In The United States”

                                     New Yorker Slide Show: “Oh, The Humidity!”    Eighteen cartoons about the sticky icky, includes work by, among others, Helen Hokinson, Robert Weber, Liza Donnelly (shown to the left), Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Frank Cotham, Ali Solomon, Maggie Larson, and David Sipress. See

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Friday Spill: Just Arrived…”At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker”; Article Of Interest…Paul Noth; Harry Bliss’s Graphic Memoir, “You Can Never Die”

                                 Just In: At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker Was very pleased to find this advance copy in the mail of At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker (it’ll be out this November, from Clarkson-Potter). Alen MacWeeney has photographed over 50 of

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