Chast A National Humanities Medalist The Spill congratulates Roz Chast on her award! She began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 1978. More information about the National Endowment for the Humanities Awards and a list of the 2022 and 2023 medalists here. Here’s the photo & text Ms. Chast posted on social media this morning: _____________________________________________________________________
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Jules Feiffer’s NYTs Profile From The New York Times, October 8, 2024, “At Home With Jules Feiffer” — the paper of record visits the noted artist & writer in his upstate New York home. Mr. Feiffer began contributing to The New Yorker in 1992. In the 2000 Valentine’s Day issue of The New York Times, Mr. Feiffer had this to
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Fave Photo Of The Week: 10 Cartoonists At The Algonquin For Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” Doc Filming for Liza Donnelly’s documentary, Women Laughing has been underway for several weeks in New York City. Last Sunday ten New Yorker cartoonists gathered at the fabled Algonquin Hotel in midtown Manhattan for a roundtable discussion. Here’s the group, standing on 44th Street, photographed by
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An Algonquin Grouping I thought it would be fun, on this (finally) not scorching hot morning, to gather some Algonquin Round Table related books off the shelves, and bring them together for a group photo along with a couple of original portraits (that’s The New Yorker’s founder and first editor, Harold Ross, as drawn by Garrett Price on the
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