The New Yorker Holiday Party 2020 I’ve missed just a few New Yorker holiday parties over the years. Weather did in several (a memorable evening in the early 1990s when my wife and I headed down the Taconic Parkway, cruising along at 20 mph in a snowstorm…we turned back at the Bull’s Head Road exit, with nearly 100 miles
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David Salle & Peter Arno From The East Hampton Star, Oct. 1, 2020: The article includes this: “The figures are painted in a bold linear style inspired by the mid-20th-century New Yorker cartoons of Peter Arno.” __________________________________________________ As noted on this site the other day, no cartoons in this upcoming title (out October 6th). There is however, a good bit
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There’s a little bit of Thurber in this Thurber Thursday post, as one of his illustrations appears on The Pocket Entertainer book cover and one of his collections is mentioned later on, but the post really is about the small Summer New Yorker library I’ve put together over the years with yard sale finds and library book sales. Not
Read moreNo Monday Tilley Watch today as we’re in the second half of a double issue stretch (the latest issue is dated July 6 & 13, 2020). The next new issue, dated July 20, 2020 will be out next Monday). Just for fun, I thought I’d dust-off and update the Glossary I compiled some years back for a newyorker.com feature. The
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