The just reissued Saul Steinberg 1945 collection, All In Line, caused me to dig out my 1947 paperback copy (shown above) I’ve had for quite a while. Because the paper is brittle and the pages threaten to detach, I don’t go to it very often. It took this 2024 edition to remind me — gadzooks! — that I do not
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Latest Additions To The Spill Library: Two volumes of bound New Yorkers recently arrived here. I’m slowly filling in the early 1970s bound issues (there are plenty of loose issues in the library). This time period is especially of interest to me because these were the issues I studied, as a high school student, as they arrived in the
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Driving through my town late yesterday afternoon I saw a small sign stuck in the ground on the side of the road: Library Book Sale Today. So I went over to the library, parked, then walked down the grassy hill to the back door that, as long as I’ve been in this town, opens up to the used books room.
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First & Last New Yorker Drawing: John Corcoran A decade ago, when I interviewed Lee Lorenz (The New Yorker‘s former Art/Cartoon editor), one of the new-to-me pieces of information I heard was that The New Yorker cartoonist John Corcoran had been supplying a good number of
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