Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Birthday: A Basic Library If you’re interested in The New Yorker‘s beginnings, there are a number of books around that make for great reading. Whenever I’m presented with a head-scratcher of a question about the magazine’s infancy, I make the rounds looking for a full picture (in other words, I don’t rely on just one
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library…The New Yorker Reporter At Large (An Armed Service Edition) The latest addition to the Spill library, The New Yorker Reporter At Large, is the third addition to the Spill‘s New Yorker Armed Services Edition collection. It was published in March of 1946 (the Spill ‘s Armed Services Edition collection also contains books by Dorothy
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An Algonquin Grouping I thought it would be fun, on this (finally) not scorching hot morning, to gather some Algonquin Round Table related books off the shelves, and bring them together for a group photo along with a couple of original portraits (that’s The New Yorker’s founder and first editor, Harold Ross, as drawn by Garrett Price on the
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Gluyas Williams’s Benchley Covers Robert Benchley books and Gluyas Williams drawings go together like soup and sandwich. Yesterday I looked up the dust jacket art for Benchley’s collections (first editions, and only those books published before his death in 1945). Here’s what I found (still looking for the Williams cover art appearing on Benchley’s first collection, 1921’s Of All
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