For the past twenty-seven summers, my wife, Liza Donnelly, and I have gone to the same Downeast home, and over those years, have built a small library of books, some New Yorker-centric (but many having nothing to do with the magazine). Copies of all of The New Yorkery books in Maine are also in the Spill‘s library back home
Read more
E.B. White On Thurber’s Drawings From the Department of One Thing Leads to Another, I began this Thurber Thursday by taking Conversations with James Thurber off the shelf and turning to the book’s very first “conversation,” conducted in 1939 by Arthur Millier for The Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine. Mr. Millier spent a
Read more
Map Covers There’ve been a number of New Yorker covers over its 97 years that use maps as a focus, or theme. One of the most popular is this one (if numbers of shower curtains sold is an indication of popularity). But I’m thinking this morning of these other map covers, all gems. Top left, clockwise: William Steig*, Arthur Getz,
Read more
A good many books anchoring the Spill‘s library — books heavily favoring text over cartoons that is — are books by and about the White and Angell family. After hearing of Roger Angell’s passing yesterday, I spent some time looking over these books. I keep them on the shelf together — a never ending family reunion. You can’t really think
Read more