Wednesday Spill: Latest Arrival…”Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life And Art Of Barbara Shermund”; Fave Photo Of The Week…Ed Steed In Brooklyn

Latest Arrival: Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund There’s nothing I like better than seeing a New Yorker artist given their due. The work of Barbara Shermund, a major contributor to the magazine from June 13, 1925 through September 16, 1944, had seemed to fade from the conversation over the

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Friday Spill: Reminder: Liza Donnelly & Sara Lautman In Conversation At Politics & Prose Tonight!; Classifieds; Barbara Shermund’s Cartoons: From Whimsy To Whamsy?; Cover Revealed For Martin/Bliss Book

Reminder: Liza Donnelly & Sara Lautman In Conversation At Politics & Prose Today at 7! Sara Lautman, (upper left) who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016 will be in conversation with Liza Donnelly, who began contributing to the magazine in 1979. All the info here ______________________________________________________________________________ From Roxie Munro:  Studio share available starting June or July. My studiomate of the

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Tuesday Spill: At Last! Barbara Shermund’s Obit In The Paper Of Record; Gil Roth Interviews David Sipress; Bill Woodman’s Obit In His Hometown Paper, “The Bangor Daily News”

How wonderful to open yesterday’s New York Times and see the above. The piece, written by Janaki Challa, had been online for days on the Times website, but there’s something more, um, “real” about seeing an article in the actual publication.   I have seen at least one online mention that Ms. Shermund’s passing in 1978 was “ignored” by the Times,

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