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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Van Doren’s Ross & Thurber Films Released

Two Adam Van Doren films:  James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times and Top Hat & Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of The New Yorker will be available on iTunes as well as on dvd, June 17.  Here’s a piece about the films from filmfestivals.com. And here’s the First Run Features website where you can learn more about ordering.

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