“Drawing Life” With Liza Donnelly From The Norman Rockwell Museum, this news of an “online and on-demand program of sketching and conversation about creative expression, the power of persuasion, and illustration” with Liza Donnelly, a long-time New Yorker contributor (Ms. Donnelly first sold a drawing to the magazine in 1979). The event takes place on January 19, 2023.
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Washington Post Article Of Interest…Liza Donnelly’s “How We Draw Ourselves” From The Washington Post, December 2, 2023, “How We Draw Ourselves: Alison Bechdel, Bishakh Som and others reflect on cartoons, gender and feminism” Long-time New Yorker cartoonist, Liza Donnelly interviews Alison Bechdel, Bishakh Som, Amy Hwang, Sara Lautman, Roz Chast, Sarah Akinterinwa, and Mads Horwath. _______________________________________________________________ Latest Addition To The
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More Books: Addams, Gluyas Williams…And Thurber On a very rainy day here in Downeast Maine I revisited a bookstore / antique store I’ve gone to for years (The Big Chicken Barn in Ellsworth). I left with more books than I maybe coulda shoulda woulda bought. It’s always fun to weigh which books are “necessary” vs which are not. This group
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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
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