Out Now: Ken Krimstein’s Einstein In Kafkaland Ken Krimstein’s latest, Einstein In Kafkaland (Bloomsbury Publishing), is out now. Mr. Krimstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2000. Here’s an excerpt from American Scientist Here’s a 6 minute NPR piece on Mr.
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Liza Donnelly In Conversation With Historian Heather Cox Richardson Ms. Donnelly, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979, will join with the historian Heather Cox Richardson on July 25 up in (down in?) Damariscotta, Maine. All the information you need appears in the poster below. Related: From The Boothbay Register, July 18, 2024, “Heather Cox Richardson Welcomes New
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Funny Stuff Authors Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast This week’s guests on the always fun Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast are Phil Witte and Rex Hesner, the co-authors of the just released Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons (featured in yesterday’s Spill post). Shown above, clockwise from the top left: Rex Hesner, Paul Nesja, Phil Witte, and
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Out Today…Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons It’s pub day for Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons (Prometheus). The authors, Phil Witte and Rex Hesner, who have been writing about New Yorker cartoons for some time, have done an excellent job exploring the mystical
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