Sunday Reading A rainy and windy day drive yesterday through winding rolling roads to visit my favorite used bookstore, Rogers Book Barn in Hillsdale, New York. On the way, I came across not one, but two large snapping turtles, side-by-side, planning to cross a country road. Took it as a sign (a sign of what I don’t know). At Rogers
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Ernst’s In A Word Illustrated By James Thurber Back in June, I posted a piece about coming across the only online image of a dust-jacketed copy of the (UK) Hamish Hamilton edition of Margaret Ernst’s 1939 In A Word (the book is generously illustrated with Thurber drawings). The online image showed only the front
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The Tilley Watch Online, May 29 – June 2, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Brendan Loper, Paul Noth, Mick Stevens, Yasin Osman, Emily Bernstein. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook:
Read moreItems of interest this mid-week: Two reminders of upcoming events. On January 29, the great illustrator Robert Andrew Parker (shown below), whose work has appeared numerous times in The New Yorker, will be featured at The New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium. Details here. ________________________________________ On January 30th, Long-time cartoonist Mort Gerberg will be in conversation with The New Yorker‘s
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