The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of May 25, 2020: CBS Sunday Morning’s Mini-Slideshow; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

It’s become (almost) the norm during these strange days, weeks, and months that the online digital edition of The New Yorker is not as yet posted by this time of day (early morning that is). Back in the pre-shutdown days it usually appeared in the wee hours (usually around 3 a.m.). There was even a time before that when it

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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of May 11, 2020: Let Us Now Praise George Booth’s Auto Repair Shop Cartoons

The Cover: The ninth coronavirus-themed cover out of the last ten issues. Here’s a Q&A with cover artist, Christoph Mueller. From the Dept. of Broken Records: sorry, but do New Yorker covers really need titles? This one would be fine standing all by itself. The Cartoonists: Let Us Now Praise George Booth’s Auto Repair Shop Cartoons In a departure for

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The Weekend Spill: A Book Of Interest On The Horizon; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of April 6-10, 2020

________________________________________________________________ It appears that this long-ago rejected cover painting is going to be a Spill Easter thing. ___________________________________________________________   An Editor’s Burial: Journals and Journalism From The New Yorker and other Magazines, coming our way in July from Penguin/Random House.   This from the publisher: A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists

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