A Miscellany Looking over items on my desktop this morning (not my “real” desktop — the one on my computer) I came across various items I’ve been saving for future Spill posts. I thought, hey wait a sec! Posting these as group is a Spill post. So here, in no particular order, and with little to connect them other than they’re
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A Look At The New Yorker’s 25th Anniversary Issue This morning I grabbed a bound volume of New Yorkers off the shelf that includes the magazine’s 25th anniversary issue. Hmmmm, I thought to myself…1950. interesting time for the magazine, with the semi-modern wave of cartoonists (Saxon, Weber, Lorenz, Miller, etc.) yet to arrive. If we remember that Harold Ross (the
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A New Yorker State Of Mind On Two April ’33 Issues As always with every post from A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine, much to dig into. Check it out here. Cover artists: Helen Hokinson, on the left, and Garrett Price on the right. _________________________________________________________ New York Times Podcast Of Interest: Conde
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Here’s a link to the MoCCA Arts Fest 2022 website for even more info. Roz Chast began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978, Liza Donnelly in 1979, Maggie Larson in 2017, Barbara Smaller in 1996, and Bishakh Som in 2018. ____________________________________________________ 70 Years Ago In The New
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