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
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of April 27, 2020
The Cover The new issue’s cover, by Homer Hanuka, is the seventh of the last eight covers that are coronavirus-related. You can read a Q&A with the artist here. The Cartoonists Joe Dator, Sam Gross, Harry Bliss, Farley Katz, Roz Chast, Ellis Rosen, Glen Baxter, P.C. Vey, Emily Flake, Frank Cotham, David Sipress, Liana Finck, Lars Kenseth, Johnny DiNapoli, Carol
Read moreThe 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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