Weekend Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week…Chast & Donnelly in Central Park; Video Of Interest…Evan Lian; Article Of Interest…Karl Stevens Illustrates Jamie Lee Curtis’s “Mother Nature”; More Spills…A Trimmed Swann Illustration Auction…Remnick’s New Book

Fave Photo Of The Week: Chast & Donnelly In Central Park Roz Chast and Liza Donnelly, sitting on a bench this past Thursday in New York’s Central Park on the first day of shooting Ms. Donnelly’s documentary film based on her book Funny Ladies, The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists.  — Photo by the film’s Producer, Judith Mizrachy ______________________________________________________________________ Video Of

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Thurber Thursday: Cassettes, Anyone?

Cassettes, Anyone?  Back in the late 1970s, early 1980s, cassettes seemed to be giving vinyl records a run for their money — they were the next big thing. Altho I had been buying vinyl albums for decades, the idea of the cassette  — especially buying blank tapes and making your own mix — was appealing. I had the beginnings of

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