Fave Photo Of The Week: Liza Donnelly With Yo-Yo Ma Read about Ms. Donnelly’s experience working alongside and with Yo-Yo Ma this past Wednesday. –photo by Eric Korenman _________________________________________________________________ Sam Gross Original Drawings On Display In Florida From Wolfsonian-Fiu Library, “‘Sam-I-Am’: The Passing Of Sam Gross” A piece
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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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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: Debris caught in bare tree branches. (To me) the cover seems more like something that would appear in the Fall. Just sayin’. The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Seventeen cartoonists, seventeen cartoons.
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Last Friday, my New Yorker cartoonist colleague (and wife), Liza Donnelly and I, made a trip west to Columbus, Ohio to join in the festivities surrounding the awarding of the Thurber Prize For American Humor (the winner was Steven Rowley for The Guncle). Our part was to deliver the following (after a few minutes of on-stage banter): “As long time
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