A Trusty Summertime Quartet I’ve written before about the summertime New Yorker reading that awaits when my cartoonist colleague (and wife) Liza Donnelly and I make our annual trek to Maine. In that piece about summer reading I didn’t mention the quartet of older New Yorker magazines that also remain year after year in “Vacationland” (we continue working while here, so
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“…Blame The Unconscious, I Guess” As mentioned a few Thurber Thursdays ago, I’ve been once again re-visiting Harrison Kinney’s massive James Thurber: His Life And Times. I happened upon this passage yesterday that I could easily identify with [it’s on page 421]. Thurber is speaking (in an interview with Kinney) about how his famous “house that merges into the head
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Latest Additions To The Spill Library Two additions this past week, a book by Nicholson Baker, and a book about death, edited by Mort Gerberg. First up, Mr. Baker’s Double Fold: Libraries And The Assault On Paper, published in 2001. I’m showing
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: Debris caught in bare tree branches. (To me) the cover seems more like something that would appear in the Fall. Just sayin’. The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Seventeen cartoonists, seventeen cartoons.
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