Early Release: Next Week’s New Yorker Cover The second early release New Yorker cover in a row (the current issue, with Bob Staake’s RBG cover, showed up early last week). This one’s by David Plunkert. You can read about it here. _______________________________________________________________________ A Stevenson Rhino Whenever I’ve go into a used bookstore, I head straight for their humor section (no
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Finck’s Wordless Ways From the last page (Sketchbook) of The New York Times Book Review, September 27, 2020 “A Wordless Way To Write A Novel” by Liana Finck, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here. _______________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, September 21 – 25, 2020 An end of week listing of the magazine’s artists
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The Cover: It’s the Technology Issue, with a cover, by Pascal Campion, reflecting these strange times. When the cover first popped up on my screen I thought it was by Sempe: y’know, the large space, inhabited by a single person — viewed from above. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Sixteen cartoonists, fifteen cartoons (Emily Flake has a “Comic Strip” on page
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Interview Of Interest: Madeline Horwath From solrad, September 17, 2020, “Exploring Queer Culture Through Cursed Images: An Interview With Madeline Horwath.” Madeline Horwath began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 2019. _______________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Emily Flake on a Trump Slim Pickens (postal) ride. Ms. Flake began contributing to The New Yorker in 2008.
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There’s a little bit of Thurber in this Thurber Thursday post, as one of his illustrations appears on The Pocket Entertainer book cover and one of his collections is mentioned later on, but the post really is about the small Summer New Yorker library I’ve put together over the years with yard sale finds and library book sales. Not
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