Snowing here at Spill Headquarters. A nice way to enter the weekend. Charles McGrath On Daniel Menaker Be sure to check out Charles McGrath’s Postscript: “Remembering Daniel Menaker, A Lighthearted Champion Of His Writers” _________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon… Johnny DiNapoli on candy corn. Mr. Dinapoli began contributing to The New Yorker in June of 2019. Visit his website
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Video Of Interest: Jules Feiffer For the next two weeks you can see, for free(!) this just released film, Jules Feiffer: A Conversation. The film is followed by a zoom panel moderated by Michael Tisserand (who interviews Mr. Feiffer in the film) Liza Donnelly, Keith Knight, and Matt Wuerker. Mr. Feiffer began contributing to The New Yorker in 1992. In
Read moreAnd finally a cover for Daniel Menaker & Roz Chast’s October release, The African Svelte: Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense From the publisher: Inspired by his tenure at The New Yorker, this collection of comical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English comes with commentary by the author, illustrations by Roz Chast, and a foreword from Billy Collins.
Read moreTwo of the New Yorker’s very best cartoonists, George Booth and Danny Shanahan at the magazine’s offices today (photo courtesy of Liza Donnelly) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ …newyorker.com’s Culture Desk is featuring a slide show of Bob Eckstein’s graphic coverage of the Golden Globes. See it here. …looking forward to the fall publication of Daniel Menaker’s new book, The African
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