This time of year, when there’s snow on the ground (as there is here in upstate New York), reminds me of a long-time favorite passage in the third paragraph of the Foreword of Burton Bernstein‘s fabulous Thurber biography, published in 1976. I won’t repeat the paragraph here so as to avoid ruffling copyright feathers, but I believe it’s fair to
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Happy 85th Edward Koren! Birthday wishes to one of the greatest New Yorker artists, Edward Koren, born on this day in 1935. Mr. Koren, now in his 58th year of contributing to the magazine, is The New Yorker‘s longest running regular cartoonist contributor. Here’s Mr. Koren’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Edward Koren ( photo above, Fall 2016, courtesy of
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I took a moment this morning to dig through a stack of long-neglected vinyl albums. The above 1956 Dave Brubeck Trio album was just a few lps below some classical albums. The cover is by the great Arnold Roth, an artist with an abundance of tools in his artist’s toolbox (remember his covers for John Updike’s Bech books? A bonus
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Today’s Daily Cartoon & Cartoonist Madeline Horwath, who began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 2019, on staying awake. …Yesterday’s Daily Cartoon, from Emily Flake, who began contributing to The New Yorker in September of 2008. ______________________________________________________________ Yesterday’s Daily Shouts: “‘Antiques Roadshow’: 2021” by cover artist, Jenny Kroik. _____________________________________________________________ More Bliss & Martin A recent post, part
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