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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Some Recent Additions to The Spill Library In the past few weeks, a small crop of books came this way, a few of them are shown above. All have The New Yorker in common. Many were gifted to the Spill library, some were
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Washington Post Article Of Interest…Liza Donnelly’s “How We Draw Ourselves” From The Washington Post, December 2, 2023, “How We Draw Ourselves: Alison Bechdel, Bishakh Som and others reflect on cartoons, gender and feminism” Long-time New Yorker cartoonist, Liza Donnelly interviews Alison Bechdel, Bishakh Som, Amy Hwang, Sara Lautman, Roz Chast, Sarah Akinterinwa, and Mads Horwath. _______________________________________________________________ Latest Addition To The
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