Tis A Puzzlement! The Spill‘s good friend, the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent in a scan of a bookplate he found affixed to a copy of Robert Benchley’s Beside Himself. I’m posting it in hope a Spill reader will be able to shed some light on Mary E. Hemenway and her fascinating bookplate. You’ll notice Otto Soglow’s Little King
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Daily Shouts: “The Impossible Caption Contest” The New Yorker has fun at its own expense in a Daily Shouts post. See the piece here. Looking forward to seeing all of these impossibles “solved.” _______________________________________________________________ Video/Article Of Interest: Kate Isenberg From Alta.com, October 7, 2021, “‘Alta Live’ Recap: Kate Isenberg’s Comedic Touch” A video and an article about Kate Isenberg, who
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