Early Cover Release: The New Yorker, October 21, 2024 issue Next week’s cover, released three days early, with art by Owen Smith, is a rarity: a cover directly tied-in to a major piece within the magazine, “Alexei
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Tag: Peter Arno
Tuesday Spill: An Arno-Centric Shelf
Back in the years when I was researching Peter Arno, I was on the lookout for anything Arno-related. When I came across a book that featured Arno cover art (and sometimes that was his sole contribution) I decided it was necessary to get hold of it (several of those books only came my way after the Arno biography was published.
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Thurber Thursday: Thurber At Vassar
Thurber At Vassar What a nice surprise to learn that Vassar has two Thurber original drawings. The one above now joins (in my memory bank) the handful of other “complicated” Thurber drawings
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Wednesday Spill: Two More Shelves Of Books By New Yorker Authors (Benchley To Roth)
I had such a good time writing about some of the books by New Yorker authors on the Spill‘s shelves in yesterday’s post, I thought I’d continue today (still leaving off the “A” authors). As with yesterday’s books, these are only books by New Yorker authors, not books about them (next week, I’ll show some of the books about New
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