On this Thurber Thursday I’m going to link you to two recent James Thurber*-centric Liza Donnelly broadcasts. I’ve asked Ms. Donnelly to explain what she was up to in these broadcasts. “A few times each week, I live-draw on InstagramTV and HappsTV. Usually I draw something in the news, but this past Tuesday, I decided to share my love of
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The Batch I thought it would be fun to show what is (for me) a week’s work, more or less. Below that photo is another photo of a “batch” — the collective word for the drawings submitted weekly to The New Yorker. The batch is what’s been distilled from the working drawings, or just from a blank piece of paper.
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Exactly one year ago today I posted the A Sunday Puzzler piece below. This afternoon, while going through a newly arrived (but old) book, E.B. White: A Bibliography, by A.J. Anderson (The Scarecrow Press, 1978), I came across the answer to the puzzle, efficiently explained in one sentence by Mr. Anderson in his Introduction. Forget the very beginning about the
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker This Week: The New Yorker‘s 96th Anniversary Issue The Cover: Rea Irvin’s classic cover, once traditionally appearing on every anniversary issue of The New Yorker (until the string was broken by Robert Crumb’s “Elvis Tilley” in 1994) has inspired
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