A sure-to-please event at The Strand Bookstore ( 828 Broadway, 2nd Fl.) May 3, 2011, 7 pm — 8 pm, celebrating the winner of the 2011 Eustace Tilley contest and launch of The New Yorker’s Strand tote bag. Francoise Mouly the magazine’s Art Editor, will moderate a panel discussion with George Booth, Roz Chast, Maira Kalman, and Adrian Tomine. Other
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Video: C.E.M.
Here’s a great video about the life of long time New Yorker cover artist and cartoonist C.E.M. (Charles E. Martin).
Read moreBob Eckstein’s NYTs midlife crisis table tennis piece
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)
Read moreLibrarians 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;
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