Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of October 17-21, 2022; Tilley Trivia

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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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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