Tuesday Spill: Jason Chatfield’s Substack; 68 Years Ago In The New Yorker

Jason Chatfield’s Substack Jason Chatfield (the Spill‘s Sports correspondent) has a new Substack, “New York Cartoons.”   It leads off with “Coming To America” — fun (free!) interesting writing (and more) from Mr. Chatfield who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017.  You can subscribe here.  ___________________________________________________________________ 68 Years Ago In The New Yorker I keep a list of all

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Wednesday Spill: Do Numbers Matter?

Do Numbers Matter?  I’m not good with numbers, but I do enjoy numbering. For instance: I keep track of new New Yorker cartoonists as they enter the fold; I have a year-by-year list of who was published, and when their first drawing appeared in the magazine. It gives me some kind of anchoring satisfaction to glance at the list and

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