Ink Spill’s Morgue

Fifteen or more years ago when I was just beginning to gather material for my biography of Peter Arno, a good friend who worked at The New York Times offered to get hold of what that newspaper had on Arno in its morgue (soon after he reported back, that, unfortunately, the Arno files were missing).   I don’t think I’d

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The Monday Tilley Watch

The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. The week begins with the eclipse eclipsing political news, if only for a moment. Good luck with that, eclipse.  As noted here last week the cover of the new issue (dated August 28, 2017) has received more notice than usual.  Read

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