A New Yorker State Of Mind On The Issue Of November 2, 1935 Need some fun post-Thanksgiving, post- Black Friday reading? Look no further than this latest entry from A New Yorker State of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine. — Cover by Constantin Alajalov The Spill‘s Alajalov A-Z Entry: Mr. Alajalov’s
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Peter Arno In The Society of Illustrators Hall Of Fame Peter Arno, the great, if not the greatest New Yorker cartoonist, is one of the SOI’s 2025 Hall Of Fame inductees. Go here to see more on Arno as well as all the other hall of famers. –above: Arno poses for Time magazine in 1928 Here’s Arno’s A-Z Entry:
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Book on The Horizon: E.B. White New York Sketches New York Sketches, From McNally Editions, out this December 4th. From the publisher’s text: New York Sketches, the first collection of his casual pieces about the city, White ranges at whim from the nesting habits of pigeons to the aisles of a calculator trade-show on Eighth Avenue,
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Personal History: Learning To Draw Recently, while going through some old papers, I found a couple of drawings my father did — the only two drawings of his I have (as far as I know, he didn’t aspire to become an artist — he became a policeman). I knew the drawings were somewhere in our home, but had I
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