New Yorker-Centric Books Stepping Up Here at Spill headquarters we ran out of bookshelf space quite awhile ago; even the places to “temporarily” place them have become crowded. A few weeks ago, a few old favorites and new favorites — all New Yorker-centric (but one) — began being placed at the bottom step of our thirteen hallway steps. Then a
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The Wednesday Watch: Two Steinberg Videos Of Interest; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
________________________________________________________________________ Two Steinberg Videos Of Interest Incontro con Saul Steinberg in Italian (with Steinberg’s voice dubbed). Screen grab above from this video. Fun to watch even if you don’t speak the language. And… Steinberg: Outsider Extraordinaire…a National Gallery of Art lecture. Steinberg’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Saul Steinberg Born, June 15, 1914, Ramnic-Sarat, Rumania. Died in 1999. New Yorker
Read moreThurber Thursday: The Thurber Carnival Original Broadway Cast Soundtrack; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
When I first began collecting just about anything with Thurber’s name and/or drawings, coming across the above vinyl album was a big big deal. Not just because it’s a very fun “objet d’Thurber,” but the design delivers more than your typical soundtrack album: when you open the gatefold sleeve you find Thurber’s The Last Flower in its entirety. The inner
Read moreToday’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Yesterday’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist
Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Ellis Rosen on yet another distraction. Mr. Rosen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Visit his website here. _______________________________________________________________ Yesterday’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist From Jason Chatfield & Ethan Hall: “Do I Have To Get Up Yet? A Flowchart” Mr. Chatfield has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2017. Visit his website here.
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