Happy 96th, Edward Sorel! The Spill wishes the one-and-only Edward Sorel a very happy 96th birthday! Above left: Mr. Sorel at The Century Cub in 2021, celebrating the release of his memoir, Profusely Illustrated. on the right: Mr. Sorel’s first book, Moon Missing, published in 1962. Below: Mr. Sorel’s New Yorker cover
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A Group…Kovarsky, Steed, Decker, Cotton, Kenseth, Hokinson When I showed a group of original work two Mondays ago, I realized how much fun it is (for me) to toss together various pieces and then gab a bit about each one. This then is Group #2 of some original art (and a book) from the Spill archives. We’ll begin, front and center,
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Chast’s Embroidery From Threads Magazine, “Cartoonist Artist Roz Chast Draws With Needle And Thread” Ms. Chast began contributing to The New Yorker in the summer of 1978. Visit her website here. ________________________________________________________________________ Library Odds & Ends Okay, so these aren’t really “odd” but they are literally at the end of one of the Spill’s library shelves.
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A Bound New Yorker Profile Alerted by a comrade-in-finding-interesting-New Yorker-stuff-on-Ebay (thank you, Steve Stoliar), I’ve ended up with an unusual (and inexpensive) bound volume of three issues of The New Yorker, dated, as you see in the photo, June 12th, 19th, 26th, 1943. At first glance, seeing it listed on Ebay, I’d no idea
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