A lot of material accumulates when you’ve been researching a subject for fifteen years. In my case, much of it was placed in a ramshackle assortment of black binders pictured here. There was also a binder [not pictured] labeled “Next” that contained a very very long checklist of things that needed looking into. The more I uncovered about Arno,
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A Surprise By Way of E.B. White’s “The Lady Is Cold”
Late yesterday afternoon two New Yorker cartoonists (oh, all right, it was my wife, Liza Donnelly & I) were walking across the street from The Plaza Hotel, when I realized we were near the statue of Pomona (the goddess of abundance) that stands atop the Pulitzer Fountain on The Grand Army Plaza. I wanted a closer look at Pomona because
Read moreVan Doren’s Ross & Thurber Films Released
Two Adam Van Doren films: James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times and Top Hat & Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of The New Yorker will be available on iTunes as well as on dvd, June 17. Here’s a piece about the films from filmfestivals.com. And here’s the First Run Features website where you can learn more about ordering.
Read moreBook of Interest: E.B. White on Dogs
There are a number of New Yorker alum who had much to do with the magazine’s art, but are not generally thought of as New Yorker artists. E.B. White is perhaps the most famous of the lot, although he did venture big time into the magazine’s art department with the publication of his one and only cover (below) published April
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