Note: We are now in the second week of a New Yorker double issue period, meaning there is no new issue for us to pore over this morning. Instead, here’s something seaweedsy for you. Thanks to the eagle-eyed friend of the Spill, Steve Stoliar, we can add to our reservoir of Alfred Hitchcock imagery this one of Eustace Tilley floating
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Weekend Spill: Early Cover Release 100th Anniversary Volumes Of New Yorker Fiction and Poetry
Early Cover Release: A Century Of Poetry In The New Yorker / A Century Of Fiction In The New Yorker Here are the first sightings of The New Yorker ‘s celebration of its upcoming 100th birthday (that would be in February of 2025, when these titles will be released). You can read more about each here on the publisher’s
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Weekend Spill: Saxon’s Neckties; The Tilley Watch Online, July 1-5, 2024
Charles Saxon’s Neckties Adam Gopnik’s “The Knotty Death Of The Necktie,” (a Weekend Essay on newyorker.com) has this to say about the late great Charles Saxon: If the closet is old enough, its ties will show a whole social history of the pallid fifties turning into the ambivalent sixties turning into the florid seventies. The New Yorker cartoonist Charles Saxon captured these
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Friday Spill: 50 Years Ago In The New Yorker
50 Years Ago In The New Yorker After deciding I’d like to see what was happening, cartoon-wise in The New Yorker 50 years ago, I stepped into the magazine’s time machine (otherwise known as its archive), and was pleased to see this
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