The Street Where They Lived

          When I moved to Manhattan in the fall of 1976, just out of college, I was on a mission to be published by The New Yorker.  Little did I know when I  rented an apartment at 113 West 11th Street,  that I had moved to a street that was home, at one time or another, 

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New Addition to The One Club: Donald Barthelme

                                    A casual browse this morning through The New Yorker’s database under the heading “Cartoon” turned up a surprising entry: Donald Barthelme.  Mr. Barthelme, a literary lion (Time magazine called him “America’s Weirdest Literary Genius”), was listed as having one cartoon in The

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Booksellers post Big New Yorker Book of Dogs cover

  Thurber fans will certainly enjoy the cover and content of the upcoming Big New Yorker Book of Dogs now posted online at your favorite mega-bookseller site.  The 416 page hardcover book is due October 30, 2012 (Random House). The online description reads, in part: This copious collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover

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