It’s silly to rate cartoonists, but around here, as anyone who follows Ink Spill knows, James Thurber is the #1 New Yorker cartoonist. Thinking about him on the eve of his birthday (he was born in Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894) I stood in front of the Thurber
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Former New Yorker Editor, Daniel Menaker’s Memoir, “My Mistake”
My Mistake, Daniel Menaker’s latest book continues a string of somewhat recent memoirs by former New Yorker editors (in Mr. Angell’s case, current New Yorker editor): Alexander Chancellor’s Some Times in America and A Life in a Year at The New Yorker (1999), Gardner Botsford’s A Life of Privilege, Mostly 2003) and Roger Angell’s Let
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