The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of October 10-17, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Mads Horwath & Brendan Loper (a duo effort), Zoe Si, Robert Leighton, John O’Brien, J.A.K.. Daily Shouts: Sarah Kempa, Ali Solomon. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Liz Truss’s Official Portrait Goes Up”
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Weekend Spill: Latest Addition To The Spill Library; Fave Photo Of The Week; The Tilley Watch Online, September 5-9, 2022
Latest Addition To The Spill Library In 1915, a decade before The New Yorker Magazine was born, the book you see above, Journeys To Bagdad, by Charles S. Brooks, was published by Yale University Press. One hundred-and-forty pages,
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Tuesday Spill: Transition Issues
Here’s a volume I spent a lot of time with some years back when writing Peter Arno’s biography (Brendan Gill’s Arno obit is in the issue of March 9th). Arno was, at the time of his death, still fully engaged with the magazine; his New Yorker contract for the coming year awaited his signature; he had finished off what would
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Tuesday Spill: A New Yorkery Summer Library
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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