Podcast Of Interest With Paul Noth Paul Noth is the guest on episode 92 of the podcast, Authentic Obsessions. Mr. Noth began contributing to The New Yorker in 2004. Listen here. Visit Paul Noth’s website here. ____________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On Ronald Searle’s Debut As An Illustrator Attempted Bloggery shines a light on the late great artist’s debut in “Ronald Searle:
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56 Years Ago this Week In The New Yorker Regular visitors to the Spill know that I’ve made a habit of pulling bound volumes of “vintage” New Yorkers off the shelf, flipping through and reporting on some of the things that jump out. Here’s a quick tour of the issue of November 25, 1967. Above is a splendid drawing by
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Ronald Searle, born on this day in 1920 is featured by at least two fave Spill sites today, Jason Chatfield’s blog and Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery Mr. Searle began contributing to The New Yorker in 1966 (his A-Z entry is at he bottom of this post). Mr. Chatfield (a New Yorker contributor since 2017) includes in his Searle post
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Dinner With Thurber Or Joyce Here’s a fun Thurber mention courtesy of Fran Lebowitz in The Paris Review, Summer 1993 (interviewed by Richard Linvell and George Plimpton): “If I had to, I would rather have dinner with James Thurber, than, say James Joyce. I’m not the biggest James Joyce fanatic and I would rather have dinner with someone who
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