Friday Spill: Latest New Yorker Centennial Events: New Yorker On Jeopardy…Two Cartoonists In Conversation At The Society Of Illustrators

New Yorker’s 100th Events continue…     Two of the latest events connected with The New Yorker’s ongoing centennial celebration…       The New Yorker On Jeopardy The New Yorker‘s 100th Anniversary Celebration extended this week to the television gameshow Jeopardy!, where editor David Remnick served up the answers that included an Addams family character (that’s Mr. Addams on

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Wednesday Spill: Video Of Interest: New Yorker Editor David Remnick On The Daily Show; Great Book…”The Complete Book Of Covers From The New Yorker: 1925-1989″

The New Yorker’s 100th Celebration: Video Of Interest… David Remnick On The Daily Show Here’s The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick on The Daily Show, talking New Yorker history and current politics with Jon Stewart. Nice seeing Eustace Tilley there too! _____________________________________________________________________________ Great Book: The Complete Book Of Covers From The New Yorker: 1925-1989 Back in the late 1980s, when

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Thurber Thursday: Frank Modell, Roger Angell, John Updike, In Unedited Interviews, Talk About Thurber

My New Yorker colleague, Roland High, alerted me to a site loaded with video interviews conducted for Adam Van Doren’s 2000 documentary, James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times. These are unedited video interviews of, among others, Frank Modell, John Updike, Lillian Ross, and Roger Angell. All the interviews are Thurber-centric. __________________________________________________________ James Thurber’s A-Z Entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December

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Tuesday Spill: Books Arrived This Month

It’s been a good month for books here at the Spill. The Barbara Shermund title, Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins, started things off with a bang. It’s truly a must-have for any New Yorker cartoon collection. Was pleased to get hold of The New Yorker bound volume, Jan – Feb 1977. I enjoy revisiting these issues

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