— This piece was originally posted in December of 2013. It has been updated and expanded. When I moved to Manhattan in the fall of 1976, just out of college, I was on a mission to be published by The New Yorker. Little did I know, when I rented an apartment at 113 West
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Three Book Ads Here’s a trio of ads I ran across this morning while having a fun breeze through of some late 1970s, early 1980s New Yorkers.* Seeing the Steig book ad, I’d forgotten the Lillian Ross intro — I’m inspired to dig the book out of the Spill library and see what Ms. Ross had to say about
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There’s a little bit of Thurber in this Thurber Thursday post, as one of his illustrations appears on The Pocket Entertainer book cover and one of his collections is mentioned later on, but the post really is about the small Summer New Yorker library I’ve put together over the years with yard sale finds and library book sales. Not
Read moreLast week’s 95th anniversary issue was a double issue, dated February 17 & 24, as you see below. So (sigh) no new cartoons to discuss until next Monday. In the meantime here’s a rarity courtesy of Spill friend, the author, Steve Stoliar. He recently acquired a copy of The Ritz Carltons, published in 1927, authored by Fillmore Hyde, with illustrations
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