Partying 95 Years Ago As much as I look forward this time of year, I also look back, most especially when talking about The New Yorker. With a very big anniversary now just half a dozen issues away, my inclination is to think even more about the magazine in its earliest years. Sometimes, all I’ll need to do is see
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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 With this new double issue we ring out the old (so long 2024!) and ring in the new — the year The New Yorker celebrates its 100th birthday. I’m looking forward to whatever New Yorker goodies The New York Public
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Peter Kuper Updates His Visit With Jules Feiffer From The Nation, December 19, 2024, “A Dance to Jules Feiffer At 95” by Peter Kuper, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2011. Visit Mr. Kuper’s website here. Mr. Feiffer began contributing to The New Yorker in 1992. More reading here. _____________________________________________________________ Finck’s All In Line Intro
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Die Letzte Blume Yet another foreign edition of a Thurber title is now in the Spill library. Die Letzte Blume, published in June of 1953, is a German version of Thurber’s classic, The Last Flower. This slim paperback also includes Fables For Our Time. The German edition (shown below) is one of the very few times the cover in no
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