Tis A Puzzlement! The Spill‘s good friend, the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent in a scan of a bookplate he found affixed to a copy of Robert Benchley’s Beside Himself. I’m posting it in hope a Spill reader will be able to shed some light on Mary E. Hemenway and her fascinating bookplate. You’ll notice Otto Soglow’s Little King
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A Live Event Reminder: This Sunday A Gathering Of 14 New Yorker Artists This Sunday, May 1st at 2pm. Info/tickets here. Each artist will read a 650 word self-penned essay. The artists will address the question: What’s So Funny? Liza Donnelly, who co-curated the event, will live-draw throughout the proceedings. More about Read650 here.
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Liza Donnelly was in the big apple the past few days promoting her newly released Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists. Both events were taped, with The Art Students League talk available to view now. Roxie Munro & Liza Donnelly At The Art Students League, March 24, 2022 — Above: Roxie Munro
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Interview Of Interest: Edward Sorel From “Person Place And Thing with Randy Cohen,” this 27 minute interview with the great Ed Sorel, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1990. Mr. Sorel talks Art Young, Graydon Carter, Lee Lorenz, Edward G. Robinson, and Barry Goldwater, among others. Ed Sorel will forever be remembered as the cover artist for Tina
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