Here’s a rainy (snowy in some parts) day audio piece. Taped in 1944 for CBS radio: Robert Benchley reads James Thurber’s classic, “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” (the story originally appeared in The New Yorker, March 18, 1939). ___________________________________________________________________________ James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces
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Interview Of Interest…Hilary Campbell “‘The 3pm Dance Break Lives!’ An Interview With Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell” — from Julia Edelman’s Substack. Ms. Campbell began contributing to The New Yorker in November of 2017. Visit her website here. ________________________________________________________ Fave Harold Ross News Clipping Of The Week. The below from The
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_________________________________________________________________________ This Roz Chast Pop-Up Exhibit information just in: _____________________________________________________________________________ Harry Bliss Featured In Steve! (Martin) Documentary New Yorker cartoonist, Harry Bliss, can be seen in the just released documentary, Steve!. Mr. Bliss’s work is also featured, often in animated form
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: eerie. Below, to the right of this week’s cover, is a New Yorker cover by Raymond Davidson, published 50 years ago this week, with an opposite point of view of Manhattan: The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, fifteen
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