Thurber Thursday: A Thurber House Reading On June 10th, Michael Rosen, who has a long association with The Thurber House and has edited many a modern Thurber book (including the one pictured here and the fabulous A Mile And A Half Of Lines: The Art of James Thurber) will be appearing, online, in an event described this way on the
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The Weekend Spill: Chast & Marx In Connecticut; The Tilley Watch Online for the Week of February 24th-28th, 2020
Chast & Marx In Connecticut Roz Chast & Patricia Marx will be at the Ridgefield Public Library on March 13th, promoting their most recent book,You Can Only Yell At Me For One Thing At A Time. It’s probably safe to assume there’ll be some ukulele playing at this ticketed event (five bucks). Ms. Chast began contributing to The New Yorker
Read moreDoc Film Of Interest: Sempe; Maira Kalman Illustrates Stein; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist
On Youtube, Sempe: dessinateur d’humor — a nearly hour long documentary on the great New Yorker cartoonist/cover artist. Interesting to watch, and probably even better if you speak French. — My thanks to the fab New Yorker cover artist, John Cuneo for bringing this to my attention. Sempe began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978. ____________________________________________________________________________ Maira Kalman Illustrates
Read moreThe Weekend Spill: Article Of Interest: Art Young; Blitt’s Kvetchbook; The Tilley Watch Online, January 6-10, 2020
Article Of Interest: Art Young From Yesterday’s Papers, this post, “Of Art Young & young art”. Mr. Young contributed to The New Yorker from 1925 through 1933. Visit The Art Young Gallery here. ______________________________________________________________- Blitt’s Kvetchbook Barry Blitt on the latest kerfuffle from Royalsville. Mr. Blitt has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1993. Visit his website
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