Tuesday Spill: Edward Koren Exhibit Opens; Two “Very Funny Ladies” Events Of Interest: Liza Donnelly In Conversation With New Yorker Cover Artist Roxie Munro At The Art Students League… 92nd St. Y Event With Donnelly, Chast, Hwang, and Flake; NYTs Reviews David Sipress Memoir

“Down To The Bone: Edward Koren and Stephen Gorman” has opened at the Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. .  All the info here! Edward Koren’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Edward Koren Born, 1935. New Yorker work: May 26, 1962 — . Key collections: Do You Want To Talk About It? ( Pantheon, 1976), Well, There’s Your Problem (Pantheon, 1980),

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Tuesday Spill: At Last! Barbara Shermund’s Obit In The Paper Of Record; Gil Roth Interviews David Sipress; Bill Woodman’s Obit In His Hometown Paper, “The Bangor Daily News”

How wonderful to open yesterday’s New York Times and see the above. The piece, written by Janaki Challa, had been online for days on the Times website, but there’s something more, um, “real” about seeing an article in the actual publication.   I have seen at least one online mention that Ms. Shermund’s passing in 1978 was “ignored” by the Times,

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