Thurber Thursday: My Last “Last Flower”; Drew Dernavich Returns To The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Book Launch Of Note: Hilary Campbell’s Murder Book; Daily Shouts Cartoonist & Daily Cartoon Cartoonist

Many many years ago, before I began holding onto every New Yorker-centric thing that came my way, I gave my first edition copy of Thurber’s 1939 classic, The Last Flower to a friend (the friend who showed me the very first Thurber drawing I’d ever seen). Over the years I stayed away from re-acquiring a first edition (I did acquire

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Tuesday Spill: On The Horizon: Murder Book, From Hilary Campbell; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Emily Bernstein

 Murder Book From Hilary Campbell Now listed online where books are listed: Murder Book by Hilary Campbell. According to promotional material, it’s “a humorous graphic examination of the author’s lifelong fascination with true crime and the murders that have captured her imagination…” Out from Andrews & McMeel, November 9. Ms. Cambell began contributing to The New Yorker in November of

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