Ian Frazier on Steinberg’s 100th; New Yorker’s Daily Cartoon: Sipress Redux; New Yorker Publisher on the magazine’s Festival

From newyorker.com, October 8, 2014,  “Saul Steinberg At One Hundred” — this short piece by Ian Frazier. Mr. Frazier, a long-time contributor to The New Yorker,  will moderate a panel discussion on Steinberg at the New Yorker Festival, at noon, October 12.  Details here. ________________________________________________________________________________   Ben Schwartz has handed the New Yorker’s online Daily Cartoon baton to David Sipress,

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David Remnick on Charles Barsotti; The Daily Cartoon handed off to…

  This week’s New Yorker (issue dated June 30, 2014) contains a Postscript written by the magazine’s editor, David Remnick.  The piece, spread across the magazine’s gutter, includes four Barsotti drawings.  Of Barsotti’s work, Remnick writes (in part):   In his peculiarly enchanted kingdom, any being or object was capable of speech and wit: there were talking noodles, boxes, fruit,

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