Wednesday: Before Steinberg’s “View Of The World From 9th Avenue,” McCutcheon’s “The New Yorker’s Map Of The United States”

A fascinating piece from The Big Think, April 19, 2022, “Satirical Cartography: A Century Of American Humor In Twisted Maps” by Frank Jacobs.  Above: Published in 1922: John McCutcheon‘s “New Yorker’s Map Of The United States”; Below, Steinberg’s 1976 New Yorker cover (“View Of The World From 9th Avenue”)     After reading this piece I immediately went to Deirdre Bair’s

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Steinberg biography; new Updike on Art

  From the Library Journal, their Fall preview lists a third book of observations on art by John Updike, Always Looking: Essays on Art (Knopf). His first two: Just Looking (Knopf, 1989), and Still Looking (Knopf, 2005).   Also from The Library Journal,  a listing for Saul Steinberg: A Biography (Nan A. Talese: Doubleday) by Deirdre Bair. This should be

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