Thurber Thursday: Dinner With Thurber Or Joyce; Cover Revealed: Mahdavian’s “This Country”; Searle On Attempted Bloggery; Business Card Of Interest

Dinner With Thurber Or Joyce   Here’s a fun Thurber mention courtesy of Fran Lebowitz in The Paris Review, Summer 1993 (interviewed by Richard Linvell and George Plimpton): “If I had to, I would rather have dinner with James Thurber, than, say James Joyce. I’m not the biggest James Joyce fanatic and I would rather have dinner with someone who

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Wednesday Spill: Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Pod With Guest Navied Mahdavian; Latest Cartoon Pad Pod Posted; Latest Addition To The Spill Cartoon Collection: Gluyas Williams

Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast With Guest Navied Mahdavian  This weeks Cartoon Caption Contest Pod guest is Navied Mahdavian, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. Above, clockwise, beginning top left: co-hosts Beth Lawler and Paul Nesja, Mr. Mahdavian, and co-host Vin Coca.  __________________________________________________________________   Latest Cartoon Pad Pod Posted Following a semi-brief hiatus, New Yorker cartoonists Bob

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Weekend Spill: Live Event Of Interest With Ali Fitzgerald; The Tilley Watch Online, January 30 – February 4, 2023; Addams Talk Of Interest; Update: Addams Originals On Ebay…An Unsigned Addams…A Gahan Wilson Redraw

Live Event Of Interest With Ali Fitzgerald From The University of Nebraska, “Comics and Coffee — Ali Fitzgerald”  Ali Fitzgerald began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Visit her website here.  _____________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online is an end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Brooke Bourgeois,

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