Daily Shouts: “The Impossible Caption Contest” The New Yorker has fun at its own expense in a Daily Shouts post. See the piece here. Looking forward to seeing all of these impossibles “solved.” _______________________________________________________________ Video/Article Of Interest: Kate Isenberg From Alta.com, October 7, 2021, “‘Alta Live’ Recap: Kate Isenberg’s Comedic Touch” A video and an article about Kate Isenberg, who
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Many many years ago, before I began holding onto every New Yorker-centric thing that came my way, I gave my first edition copy of Thurber’s 1939 classic, The Last Flower to a friend (the friend who showed me the very first Thurber drawing I’d ever seen). Over the years I stayed away from re-acquiring a first edition (I did acquire
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Upcoming Exhibit Of Interest: Edward Koren We’ll have to wait til March of 2022 to see “Down To The Bone: Edward Koren and Stephen Gorman” at the Peabody Essex Museum, but it’ll be worth it. All the information here. Edward Koren’s A-Z Spill entry: Edward Koren ( photo above, Fall 2016, courtesy of Gil Roth) Born, 1935. New Yorker work:
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Latest Parody Addition To The Spill Library: “The New Yawker” From James Thurber’s alma mater, Ohio State University, and The Sun Dial (the O.S.U. magazine he wrote for and edited within the first decade of the 1900s): The New Yawker. Very pleased to have come across this copy (the only one I’ve seen) and added it to the collection*(see below
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