Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A 1976 William Hamilton Collection A regular stop when I visit Northampton, Massachusetts is The Raven, a terrif used bookstore located just off of Main Street. Although the comic/comix/cartoon section is small, I ran across a number of interesting New Yorker-centric titles while there yesterday, including Steinberg At The New Yorker, Roz Chast’s Can
Read moreSofia Warren Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Episode #72 of The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast is now available. The hosts (in photo above, beginning clockwise upper left) Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, and Vin Coca, and speak with newbie(ish) New Yorker cartoonist, Sofia Warren (lower left). Listen to it here. Visit Sofia Warren’s website here.
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Jason Chatfield’s Sports Report Mr. Chatfield’s final report of the season (via The New Yorker team captain, Zach Helfland): “Vanity Fair only had a few people, so we split up the teams and just played an intra-New Yorker scrimmage: New vs. Yorker.” Visit Jason Chatfield’s website here. ____________________________________________________________________ Julia suits, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2006
Read moreLachen Mit Thurber I enjoy looking through foreign titles of Thurber books, especially when the cover art and title are unfamiliar, and, as in this case, nicely done. Google translate tells me that the title in English is Laugh With Thurber: 75 Selected Stories And Fables by James Thurber. This edition was published in 1965. Without ordering a copy (it can
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