From The New York Times Sports section, April 16, 2011, this piece by Bob Eckstein, “Weathering a Midlife Crisis in the Haunts of Table Tennis.” ( Bob Mankoff content)
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Librarians tour New Yorker’s library; S.J. Perelman’s Steinberg Artifacts
Librarians tour New Yorker’s Library: From The Desk Set, April 14, 2011, this piece, “The New Yorker Library (aka the best place on earth).” In the above photo from the post: a glimpse of William Hamilton’s, J.B. Handelsman’s and Alice Harvey’s scrapbooks. S.J. Perelman’s Steinberg Artifacts: Yesterday afternoon while re-reading Prudence Crowther’s Introduction to her book, Don’t Tread on Me;
Read moreNew music from Marcellus Hall; The next Fisticuffs
From drawger.com, this post about new music from Marcellus Hall. The disc comes with a 44 page booklet of Hall’s art. From Fisticuffs, this notice of their next two presentations, featuring a number of New Yorker cartoonists.
Read moreBob Mankoff on Jewish Comedy
From The Huffington Post, April 10, 2011, this piece by The New Yorker’s current Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff: “The People of the Joke: Exploring the Covenant of Jewish Comedy.”
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