A Spill fave blog, A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine, takes a good long look at the contents of the issue of September 21, 1935. See it here! Above: the cover is by the late great Ilonka Karasz Ilonka Karasz (photo above by Nickolas Muray) Born, Budapest, July 13, 1893. Died, Warwick, New
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Tom Toro’s And To Think We Started As a Book Club… The book is out next Tuesday. If you’re in the Hudson Valley, you can see Tom in conversation with yours truly at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY, October 16th. Here’s the October Toro book tour schedule: ____________________________________________________________________________ West Coast Exhibit Of Interest San
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Back In 1981… I wish I was paying more attention back in 1981, when Christie’s (East) auctioned a number of fabulous original drawings from Thurber’s classic New Yorker series, “The War Between Men and Women.” (Sorry the screenshot is so poor — I took it off of a poor quality online scan of the auction catalog). The expected price range
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Happy 95th, R.O. Blechman! The Spill wishes the terrif New Yorker cover artist, R.O. Blechman a very happy 95th birthday. Mr. Blechman’s A-Z Entry: R.O. Blechman (photo: Hillsdale, NY, 2017. photo by Elwood Smith ). Born, New York, October1, 1930. New Yorker work: Mr. Blechman is, among many other editorial and commercial pursuits, a cover artist for The New Yorker,
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