When we think about The New Yorker’s early years and its marquee personalities, John Mosher’s name doesn’t come up very often, if at all. And yet, he was the person who, in Katharine White’s words, “discovered” James Thurber. Mosher’s work at The New Yorker included reading unsolicited manuscripts (he was also the magazine’s first regularly assigned film critic). It was
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Birthday: A Basic Library If you’re interested in The New Yorker‘s beginnings, there are a number of books around that make for great reading. Whenever I’m presented with a head-scratcher of a question about the magazine’s infancy, I make the rounds looking for a full picture (in other words, I don’t rely on just one
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Book Of Interest…A New Biography Of Katharine S. White Linda Davis’s Onward And Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White, published in 1987, has been one of my major go-to New Yorker biographies since its publication in 1987. It’ll be interesting to compare Amy Reading’s The World She Edited (HarperCollins). Ms. White relationship to The New Yorker‘s cartoons began early in
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Curated Cartoons Announced Beth Lawler, a name you might recognize from her dual online cartoon affiliations, as a co-host of The Cartoon Contest Podcast and founder of the Facebook group, The Cartoon Caption Contest Rejects (and Enthusiasts), has announced “Curated Cartoons.” The announcement describes Curated Cartoons as a “gateway to acquire original cartoon art published in The New Yorker Magazine…Curated
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