Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A 1937 New Yorker Bound Volume With Tilley’s Farewell Occasionally I’ll buy a New Yorker bound volume even though some of the issues within the volume are already in the Spill library. The idea of sitting with a book has always been more enjoyable (for me) than with a single issue. Both are fun and
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Mary Gauerke: The Only Woman Drawing Cartoons For The New Yorker In The 1960s Reading Liza Donnelly’s Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, there’s no missing how central women artists were in the magazine’s developing years. Harold Ross, The New Yorker‘s founder and first editor, considered three cartoonists above and beyond all of his other cartoonists (their names
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This past Tuesday, Liza Donnelly went to and thoroughly enjoyed, a reading of “Talk Of The Town: James Thurber’s Years With Ross” — a play by Mike Bencivenga. Some photos below, courtesy of Ms. Donnelly. The cast on stage: More: here’s a piece about the play from Broadway World, May 11, 2023. The play was adapted from Thurber’s 1959 The
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A Highlight At Thurber House In a recent post about revisiting Thurber House I left out a high point — perhaps the high point of the day. In the Museum Room, not too far from a grouping of
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