Eustace Tilley Cufflinks Of Interest From Attempted Bloggery, September 23, 2025, “Eustace Tilley New Yorker Cuffllnks” Stephen Nadler, the fellow behind the Attempted Bloggery curtain, takes a look at these interesting, and somewhat mysterious pieces (the set above are part of the Spill archives). “Mysterious” because there seems to be, at the moment, only one other known pair (offered and
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Birthday: A Basic Library If you’re interested in The New Yorker‘s beginnings, there are a number of books around that make for great reading. Whenever I’m presented with a head-scratcher of a question about the magazine’s infancy, I make the rounds looking for a full picture (in other words, I don’t rely on just one
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Everybody’s Looking for Something I remember my first big “wow!” book discovery: a copy of The New Yorker Album (its first cartoon collection, published in 1928) sitting on a shelf in a used bookstore in Georgetown, D.C.. After finding that Album I returned to the very same store, whenever I was in D.C., hoping for lightning to strike twice (i.e.,
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An Algonquin Grouping I thought it would be fun, on this (finally) not scorching hot morning, to gather some Algonquin Round Table related books off the shelves, and bring them together for a group photo along with a couple of original portraits (that’s The New Yorker’s founder and first editor, Harold Ross, as drawn by Garrett Price on the
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