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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Personal History: Reading Thurber for The Very First Time I’ve always found it interesting that of all the stories I was assigned to read in junior high school and then later in high school, I only remember one. Not too long before I first saw a Thurber drawing (“What have you done with Dr. Millmoss?”) — perhaps a year, maybe
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