It’s silly to rate cartoonists, but around here, as anyone who follows Ink Spill knows, James Thurber is the #1 New Yorker cartoonist. Thinking about him on the eve of his birthday (he was born in Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894) I stood in front of the Thurber
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Former New Yorker Editor, Daniel Menaker’s Memoir, “My Mistake”
My Mistake, Daniel Menaker’s latest book continues a string of somewhat recent memoirs by former New Yorker editors (in Mr. Angell’s case, current New Yorker editor): Alexander Chancellor’s Some Times in America and A Life in a Year at The New Yorker (1999), Gardner Botsford’s A Life of Privilege, Mostly 2003) and Roger Angell’s Let
Read moreAngell’s Martini; Arno’s Cocktail
“I love this country of ours, Summers. It’s been good to me.” (published in The New Yorker, April 4, 1959) This recent Slate post concerning Roger Angell’s New Yorker “Dry Martini” piece of August 19, 2002 reminded me that there is such a thing as the Peter Arno Cocktail — if ever a cartoonist deserved a drink
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