The Cover: Without heading to the Table Of Contents and reading the title for this cover I’m going to guess it’s a comment on city noise. I’ve always felt New Yorker covers should work stand alone, without explanation, or description. This was the practice until Tina Brown’s revamp of the magazine, beginning with the issue of October 5, 1992. Okay,
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Weekend Spill: Signing Of Interest: J.A.K. At Word Brooklyn; Eckstein’s Books; The Tilley Watch Online, October 21-25, 2019
Signing Of Interest: J.A.K. Mark your calendar: J.A.K. will be signing The White Man’s Guide To Male Writers Of The Western Canon November 13th at Word Brooklyn. Info here. Mr. Katzenstein has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2014. _________________________________________________________ Eckstein’s Books From East Coast/West Coast/North Coast, October 27, 2019, “Bob Eckstein and His World’s Greatest Bookstores”
Read moreEven More (Charles) Addams Family; The Tilley Watch Online, October 7-11, 2019
Even More (Charles) Addams Family It’s an awful lot of fun seeing the recent splurt of ink on “The Addams Family” and the master himself, Charles Addams. The occasion is of course the arrival of the new “Addams Family” animated film. Here’s a good piece from The Smithsonian, “The Cultural History of ‘The Addams Family’” — Homebodies was published by
Read moreVideo Of Interest: New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor Emma Allen On NYC’s NY1; More Addams Family; A Friday Fave Photo; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor Emma Allen appeared on the New York’s NY1 this morning, along with cartoonist J.A.K. See it here! _______________________________________________________________ Addams Family Reviews The L.A. Times Review The New York Times Review For way way more more on Addams and The Addams Family, check out Linda Davis’s 2006 Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life (Random House). And here’s
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