An advance copy of Ken Krimstein’s Einstein In Kafkaland just arrived in the mail (it will be out this August, published by Bloomsbury). Mr. Krimstein, who began contributing his cartoons to The New Yorker in 2000, also authored the well-received titles, When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies Of Six Yiddish Teenagers (2021), and The Three Escapes Of Hannah Arendt
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Attempted Bloggery Looks At An Addams Family Redraw A Spill fave blog, Attempted Bloggery, takes a good long look at a classic Charles Addams drawing — both the published version and a redraw: “The Art of the Redraw: The Addams Family Children Back From Camp.” _____________________________________________________________________ Video Clip Of
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Fave Photos Of The Week This past Thursday, a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists hopped in a car and drove upstate to Rhinebeck, NY from the isle of Manhattan. Another cartoonist drove west from Connecticut, and yet another traveled east across the Hudson River from Woodstock. All of them settled down in a coffee shop for hours of cartoon merriment.
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Dinner With Thurber Or Joyce Here’s a fun Thurber mention courtesy of Fran Lebowitz in The Paris Review, Summer 1993 (interviewed by Richard Linvell and George Plimpton): “If I had to, I would rather have dinner with James Thurber, than, say James Joyce. I’m not the biggest James Joyce fanatic and I would rather have dinner with someone who
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