Thurber Thursday: Latest Addition to The Spill Library…”Let Your Mind Alone!”…The Brown Paper Bag Edition

Latest Addition To The Spill Library… Let’s see, how many variations are there of Thurber’s 1937 collection, Let Your Mind Alone!  Too many for me to count at the moment. I will show a few of them though — the earlier editions, including one that’s making its way, via the mail, to Spill headquarters. One edition shown here that is

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Wednesday Spill: Curious Video…”A Day In The Life Of A New Yorker Cartoon”; New Yorker Festival Cartoonist Events; At The Brooklyn Book Fair: Roz Chast & Liana Finck

 Video: “A Day In The Life Of A New Yorker Cartoon”  Here’s an animated curiosity that popped up on one of my daily searches. _______________________________________ Thematically related, but otherwise unrelated… Back in 2012 Joe Dator gave us his classic “How We Do It: A Week In The Life Of A New Yorker Cartoonist” _______________________________________________________________________ New Yorker Festival Cartoonist Events Two

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Tuesday: Flake Illustrates B’Way Production, “All In: Comedy About Love”; Covers Revealed For New Yorker’s 100th Celebration Of Fiction & Poetry; Dorothy Parker’s “Constant Reader” Collected

Flake to Illustrate All In: Comedy About Love From Broadway.com, September 23, 2024, “Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jimmy Fallon and More to Join All In on Broadway” — (Ms. Flake’s participation mentioned at the very end of the article). Visit Emily Flake’s website here.  Ms. Flake began contributing to The New Yorker in 2008. ________________________________________________________________________ Covers Revealed For New Yorker’s 100th Celebration

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