Tuesday Spill: Latest Additions To the Spill Library: Nicholson Baker’s “Double Fold: Libraries And The Assault On Paper” & The Cartoon Collection, “Last Laughs”

                                   Latest Additions To The Spill Library   Two additions this past week, a book by Nicholson Baker, and a book about death, edited by Mort Gerberg.  First up, Mr. Baker’s Double Fold: Libraries And The Assault On Paper, published in 2001. I’m showing

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Tuesday Tilley Watch: First & Last…Mary Petty

First And Last: Mary Petty Continuing a once-in-a-blue-moon Spill series, “First and Last” looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker contribution, and their very last. On this Valentine’s Day I thought it would be fun to take a look at the late great Mary Petty’s first and last (her A-Z entry appears below the drawings). Her very first New

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Friday Spill: A (Signed) 1972 Cartoon Collection, “Absolutely No U.S. Personnel Permitted Beyond This Point”

A 1972 Cartoon Collection Here’s a paperback cartoon collection I’d never seen until yesterday. Lee Lorenz, the late great New Yorker artist and art/cartoon editor, provided the cover drawing. The scans come to us via a good friend of the Spill, Steve Stoliar. My thanks to him for sharing. Published in 1972, by Dell, with “all funds realized from the

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