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
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Today I point you to Stephen Nadler’s fab site, Attempted Bloggery to see a rare program (provided by Scott Burns) for a production of The Male Animal staged in wartime Paris at The Madeleine Theater. Ohio State roomies (and life-long friends) James Thurber & Elliott Nugent collaborated, post-college, on the comedy, which became a successful Broadway play
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Auction Watch: A Richard McCallister Rough While scanning Ebay this morning I was surprised to come across the Richard McCallister rough shown below; I’d seen it quite awhile ago, and then hadn’t seen it for a long time — I assumed it found a home. McCallister (who died in 1995) was primarily an idea person — his captions/ideas were central
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Here’s a volume I spent a lot of time with some years back when writing Peter Arno’s biography (Brendan Gill’s Arno obit is in the issue of March 9th). Arno was, at the time of his death, still fully engaged with the magazine; his New Yorker contract for the coming year awaited his signature; he had finished off what would
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