Tuesday Spill: Thursday Event: Olivia de Recat At The Strand; Tom Toro Debuts New Strip, “Home Free”; Article Of Interest…Hilary Campbell

Thursday Event Of Interest: Olivia de Recat At The Strand Ms. de Recat, who began contributing to The New Yorker in February of 2018 will be in conversation at The Strand discussing her new book, Drawn Together: Illustrated True Love Stories (Voracious) Event information here .   Link here to Olivia de Recat’s website.      ______________________________________________________________ Tom Toro’s New

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Friday Spill: Ken Levine Interviews David Sipress; Article Of Interest: Edward Koren; Liana Finck In Conversation At The Strand: A Cartoonist Duo On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Ken Levine Interviews David Sipress From Ken Levine’s “Hollywood And Levine” pod, March 24, 2022:   Newbie New Yorker cartoonist Ken Levine (his first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of January 4, 2022) interviews David Sipress about his new book, What’s So Funny?  Listen here.  This is Part 1 of a two part interview. Part 2 will be

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Today’s Daily Cartoon, The Weekend Daily Shouts Cartoonist, And The Fave Photo Of The Day

A snowsuit via Carolita Johnson, and a weekend Shouts piece by Navied Mahdavian ______________________________________________________________________ Fave Photo Of The Day     Here’s Patricia Marx & Roz Chast last week at the great Strand bookstore celebrating the publication of their latest collaboration, You Can Yell At Me For One Thing At A Time: Rules For Couples.  Their previous book: Photo courtesy of

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Tonight’s Events Of Interest: Liana Finck & Emily Flake in Conversation, Drew Friedman & Robert Klein In Conversation; More Thurber; Fave Photo Of The Day; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

Liana Finck will be in conversation with Emily Flake this evening at Books Are Magic. All the info here. Ms. Finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013.  Her latest book is Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints, And Notes To Self (Random House).  Ms. Flake has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2008. Her book That Was Awkward: The

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