The holiday season reminds me of the Algonquin Hotel, and once reminded I only have to look across my desk to the snowglobe pictured above. It was given to me years ago by friends who stayed at the hotel for a day or two. I threw together the little scene above for Ink Spillers. The snowglobe sits atop
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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
Read moreNew Yorker’s Cartoon Editor on Humor, Kitties and Seinfeld; Slate: “Why Does The New Yorker Publish So Many Pieces About The New Yorker?
From New Yorker Cartoon Editor, Robert Mankoff’s blog on newyorker.com, July 11, 2012, “I Liked the Kitty” From Slate, July 12, 2012, this post by Aisha Harris and David Haglund, “Why Does The New Yorker Publish So Many Pieces About The New Yorker?”
Read moreIn Good Company: a look at the cartoons in Al Ross’s New Yorker debut issue
The news that Al Ross passed away last week got me to thinking about his start at The New Yorker, way way back in the issue of November 27, 1937, when he was twenty-five years old. This morning I went to our cabinet full of bound New Yorkers, brought out the volume from late 1937 and began paging through
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