Book of Interest: 100 Years of Humor From The Harvard Lampoon

Coming in November from Touchstone, The Harvard Lampoon’s One for The Money: The Best Humor from More Than 100 Years of Lucrative Lampoonery. From the publisher: A collection of the best of The Harvard Lampoon—the spawning ground for Hollywood’s elite comedy writers and New Yorker humorists—revealing the hidden gems from their 140-year history. Since its inception in 1876, The Harvard

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Fave Photo of the Day, Pt.2; A 1973 Profile of William Hamilton; John Updike & Cartoons

                  Fave Photo of the Day: (l-r) Ken Krimstein, Bob Eckstein and Pat Byrnes in Chicago this week. __________________________________________________________________________________ From The Stripper’s Guide, February 5, 2015, “News of Yore 1973: William Hamilton Profiled” — this piece by Lenora Williamson that originally appeared in Editor & Publisher, April 7 1973 (thanks to Mike

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Updike’s Cartoons

                                                    From the East Carolina Manuscript Collection, October 6, 2014, “Literary Lampoons: The Cartoonist Ambitions of a Great American Writer” — this piece on John Updike’s early cartoons. (link via The John Updike Society)

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Jeter Gets the Jeter Cover

From minonline, September 29, 2014, “New York Yankees Honor Derek Jeter with the Original Drawing of The New Yorker Cover” — this piece on the September 8th cover by Mark Ulriksen titled “Derek Jeter Bows Out”  — the piece also mentions Roger Angell’s recent writing on Jeter’s farewell as well as John Updike’s “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu” – his

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