Rake Leaves Or Organize Back Issues Of The New Yorker? This is the time of year for raking leaves. Instead, this year, I decided to finally gather in one place (the Spill cartoon library) all the back issues of The New Yorker that are here, there, and nearly everywhere around Spill headquarters. This need to organize came out of a
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The Tilley Watch Online An end of week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Brooke Bourgeois, Ellis Rosen, Kim Warp, Zoe Si, J.A.K.. Daily Shouts: Colin Stokes And Ellis Rosen. …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook To see all of the above, and more, link here. _____________________________________________________________________ Interview Of Interest: Amy Kurzweil From Fiction Advocate, October
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WSJ’s Charles Preston, 1921 -2020 Charles Preston,The Wall Street Journal’s “Pepper…and Salt” cartoon editor passed away last Friday at age 98. For 70 years (yes, 70!) he edited the “Pepper…and Salt” feature. The Journal‘s obit quotes Mr. Preston as once saying: “I’ve looked at more cartoons than anyone in the history of mankind.” A number of New Yorker artists found
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Off The Spill’s Shelves: People, Books & Book People Here’s a really fun read, published in 1980. Short interviews with a ton of folks, as you see by the list (shown below) on the back cover. My initial interest in this book was that it included New Yorker contributors such as Renata Adler, John McPhee, Donald Barthelme, John Cheever, John
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