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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Yet Another Steinberg Take-Off Should Saul Steinberg’s work be remembered in the future decades it will be for his “View Of The World” piece that appeared on the cover of the March 29, 1976 New Yorker. In Deirdre Bair’s biography of Steinberg we learned that Steinberg went from cool (“cool” being an understatement) to warm (“warm” in this case meaning
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