Thomas Vinciguerra: 1963 – 2021

Late word last night of the sudden passing of a fine fellow, Thomas Vinciguerra, who authored Cast Of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber, And The Golden Age Of The New Yorker, and edited Backward Ran Sentences: The Best Of Wolcott Gibbs. Mr. Vinciguerra, who contributed  to The New Yorker‘s Talk Of The Town, was also interviewed by the

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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 12-16, 2018; Of Interest: Mort Gerberg Anthology and Exhibit In 2019; More Spills: Vinciguerra On “The New Yorker Encyclopedia Of Cartoons”… Edward Koren’s “In The Wild”

The Daily Cartoon contributing New Yorker cartoonists for the past week: David Sipress, Peter Kuper, Jason Chatfield (with Scott Dooley), and Jason Adam Katzenstein. Not so much a Trumpian week this week. The New Yorker cartoonist contributing to Daily Shouts: Emily Flake (with Abby Sher).  To see all the work, link here. ________________________________________________ Out mid-January 2019 from Fantagraphics, Mort Gerberg

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Cast of Characters Author at The New School

Happening now at The New School. Thomas Vinciguerra talking right this second about his recently released book, Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber and The Golden Age of The New Yorker   In case you missed it, here’s Mr. Vinciguerra talking about his book to Leonard Lopate

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