Coming this July from Ohio State University Press, A Mile And A Half of Lines: The Art Of James Thurber. Edited by Michael Rosen, with contributions from Rosemary Thurber, Liza Donnelly, Seymour Chwast, Ian Frazier, and yours truly. From the publisher: Humorist, cartoonist, writer, playwright. James Thurber was to the twentieth century what Mark Twain was to the nineteenth. At
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Steinberg’s 100th to be Celebrated at The New Yorker Festival
The 100th anniversary of Saul Steinberg’s birth (he was born June 15, 1914, and died May 12, 1999) will be celebrated at the upcoming New Yorker Festival as well as other venues in and around New York (and later in the year, across the seas). Here’s the online notice on newyorker.com by Ian Frazier. And here’s a link
Read moreKrementz photographs of Addams, Steinberg, Brendan Gill, S.J. Perelman, Renata Adler, Donald Barthelme & more
I stumbled across this piece today: “Jill Krementz Covers Saul Steinberg” — it’s chock full of photographs by Krementz of Steinberg including shots of him with Charles Addams, Donald Barthelme, and Woody Allen (there’s also a photo of Charles Addams with Jackie Kennedy Onassis). Other New Yorker contributors pictured include Brendan Gill (wearing a funny straw hat), Ian
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