Event Of Interest: Akeem Roberts At The Brooklyn Public Library From The Brooklyn Public Library website, this notice of a February 24, 2026 appearance by Akeem Roberts, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2019 (the issue of July 8th). Visit his website here. Note: Mr . Roberts is one of 52 New Yorker artists profiled in the book
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Personal History…Latest Addition To The Spill Library: R. Crumb’s Heroes Of Blues, Jazz & Country From various parts of the Hudson Valley, one can glimpse the western edge of the Berkshires. It seemed a shame yesterday not to get outside and see the mountains’ Fall show of leaves and — bonus! — visit my favorite used bookstore, Rodgers Book Barn.
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Latest addition To The Spill Library: Selected Letters Of John Updike Just out yesterday: The Selected Letters of John Updike, edited by James Schiff (Knopf). I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book, knowing (or at least hoping) that there’d be a number of references to New Yorker artists and art. I was not disappointed (you can see in the accompanying photo
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40 Years Ago In The New Yorker 40 years doesn’t seem all that long ago, but as it concerns The New Yorker‘s cartoonists, it was an entirely different world then. Only two of the sixteen cartoonists in the issue of June 3, 1985 are still with us: Arnie Levin, who did the fab cover, and Mick Stevens. I can’t show
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