Here’s a book I just “rediscovered” on the shelf: Conversations With James Thurber, edited by Thomas Fensch, published by University Of Mississippi Press, 1989. As far as I know there’s no other book like it out there. The Univ Of Mississippi Press has a series of these “Conversations” (in the Spill library: Conversations With…Truman Capote, S. J. Perelman, John Cheever,
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A Daily Shouts Excerpt From Steve Martin & Harry Bliss’s Wealth Of Pigeons Yesterday’s Daily Shouts featured an excerpt from Steve Martin & Harry Bliss’s upcoming cartoon collection, A Wealth Of Pigeons. Thinking about cartoonist collaborative efforts throughout The New Yorker‘s history, several others come to mind, especially the duo of Helen Hokinson and James Reid Parker, and later, Richard
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_________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist: Marisa Acocella “A Brief History Of Menstrual ‘His’-steria” From Ms. Acocella’s forthcoming book, The Big She-Bang: The Herstory Of The Universe According To God The Mother, out November 17th from Harper Wave. Ms. Acocella has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1998. Visit her website here. _______________________________________________ Video Of Interest: Steve Martin &
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist…and Two Bonus Daily Cartoonists Two Daily Cartoons Today… From Ellis Rosen, it’s all about the map. Mr. Rosen has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2016. Visit his website here. …And a Bonus Daily from Jason Chatfield along with Scott Dooley, a long month. Mr. Chatfield has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2017. Visit
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