Back To The Book Barn Yesterday’s gloomy Charles Addamsy weather caused me to want to take a drive north to Columbia County to my favorite used book store, Rodgers Book Barn in Hillsdale, New York (Spill readers might remember this post about Rodgers from a few years back). The reason it’s fun to drive there in “weather” is because of
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Liza Donnelly At The Schulz Museum Liza Donnelly, who has been contributing to the New Yorker since 1982, will be the “guest cartoonist” at the Charles M. Schulz museum on March 5th. The museum is located in sunny Santa Rosa, California. All the info here. Ms. Donnelly’s latest book is Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists (Prometheus). It’s
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Gil Roth Interviews Will McPhail The fab Gil Roth, who has interviewed numerous New Yorker contributors (including this one) speaks with Will McPhail. Mr. McPhail (below) began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014. His new book is IN, out now. Visit Mr. McPhail’s website here. Go here for the list of Comics and Cartoonists interviewed by Mr. Roth. ________________________________________________
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It’s always surprising when an ancient New Yorker promotional book shows up online that I’ve never seen before. Such was the case when the below recently turned up on Ebay. Until last week I’d never heard of The Costume That Was A Sensation At Auteuil…But Was Never Seen On Fifth Avenue. An online search produced this Worldcat.org entry: And
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