A Not too very long ago I mentioned how much I enjoy seeing photographs of personal libraries. I thought it only fair to share a few photos of several shelves from the Spill non-cartoon library (non-cartoon, but that doesn’t mean New Yorker cartoonists aren’t somehow connected to them in some way…you’ll see). Even though the books are arranged alphabetically by
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E.B White and James Thurber — the names go together like soup and sandwich, or, um…horse and carriage. New Yorker history buffs will recall that Thurber’s first book, Is Sex Necessary, was co-authored with E.B. White, and that the two shared an office at The New Yorker in their earliest years at the magazine. It was White who fished a
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Cover Group When SPX’s Warren Bernard visited Spill headquarters recently, one of the topics of conversation was illustrated books. I mentioned that, at one time, long ago, I began collecting books
Read moreThanks to the treasure trove of scans the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent to this site, we are able to behold this beautiful Abe Birnbaum cover for New Yorker writer Philip Hamburger’s 1949 collection, The Oblong Blur. Though Mr. Birnbaum (who died in 1966) was know principally for his
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