Addams in Southampton; A look at Peter Kuper’s New York

    From The New York Times, October 11, 2013 , “An Extended Addams Family; Ghoulish and Familiar Art at the Southampton Center” (left: book jacket of Addams’ 1947 collection. Introduction by Wolcott Gibbs)           And…   From Brainpickings, “Drawn to New York: Counterculture Cartoonist Peter Kuper’s Illustrated Chronicle of 34 Years in Gotham”

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Two Books of Interest

Who would’ve thought it: two Ink Spill appearances by Truman Capote in less than a month (see the March 15th post “Truman Capote and New Yorker Cartoons”). Portraits and Observations is due out from Random House April 23. From the publisher’s notes: Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most

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