Now That’s a Cover! On this dreary January day here in the northeast, with a grey sky, and snow lingering at the edges of streets, I thought we could use a bit of blue. Here’s a fun cover from Leonard Dove. I love the simplicity of it, as well as Dove’s use of the magazine’s edge where we see the
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“The New Yorker At 100” Debuts On Netflix As of today, The New Yorker At 100 is available for home viewing. I’ve watched it through twice this morning and have a number of thoughts; I’m going to let them brew for a bit (and perhaps watch the film once more) before writing at any length about it. In the meantime,
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Bliss Book & Book Tour Harry Bliss’s new book, You Can Never Die, will be out at the end of this month (April 29th). The next day he’ll be out and about promoting it. Here’s the schedule (for details go here). Visit his website here. ________________________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State Of Mind Digs Into the April 6, 1935 Issue of
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This week’s republication of a 1936 James Thurber New Yorker cover sent me over the moon (honestly, any Thurber art on the cover would’ve). It also sent me back, via The New Yorker‘s online archive to that year’s covers, and cover artists. Anytime I look at issues of many years gone by I experience a that was then, this is
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