Dahlia Ramirez Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Dahlia Ramirez, who began contributing to The New Yorker in January of 2022, is interviewed on the latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast (episode #153, for those keeping track). Listen here. Photo above, clockwise from top left: co-hosts Beth Lawler and Paul Nesja. Dahlia Ramirez, co-host, Nicole Chrolavicius. Link here to Dahlia
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Wandering around Ebay, I came across an unknown (to me) Thurber piece, “I Can’t Make Anything Work” in a magazine, For Men (June 1939). According to Edwin Bowden’s Thurber Bibliography, this was its only appearance (i.e., not collected). Oddly(?), a piece titled, “I Break Everything I Touch” was published in 1941 in another magazine, The Man. That piece is included
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Sometimes You Miss Stuff After spending more than a decade researching Peter Arno, I felt I’d uncovered just about as much as I could about his life and work. The rare and/or obscure material seemed to have finally petered out (so to speak); I believed I’d followed every trail. And yet, seven years after I packed up my research materials,
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An advance copy of Ken Krimstein’s Einstein In Kafkaland just arrived in the mail (it will be out this August, published by Bloomsbury). Mr. Krimstein, who began contributing his cartoons to The New Yorker in 2000, also authored the well-received titles, When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies Of Six Yiddish Teenagers (2021), and The Three Escapes Of Hannah Arendt
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