It’s been a good month for books here at the Spill. The Barbara Shermund title, Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins, started things off with a bang. It’s truly a must-have for any New Yorker cartoon collection. Was pleased to get hold of The New Yorker bound volume, Jan – Feb 1977. I enjoy revisiting these issues
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E.B White and James Thurber — the names go together like soup and sandwich, or, um…horse and carriage. New Yorker history buffs will recall that Thurber’s first book, Is Sex Necessary, was co-authored with E.B. White, and that the two shared an office at The New Yorker in their earliest years at the magazine. It was White who fished a
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An Ilonka Karasz Updike Cover Last night, idly looking over the spines of John Updike books in the Spill library, I came upon his Olinger Stories, a 1964 paperback collection I’ve had for ages (and haven’t re-read for ages). As it’s a paperback, it never was slotted chronologically — I placed it horizontally, resting it on the hardcover Updike books.
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Off The Spill’s Shelves: People, Books & Book People Here’s a really fun read, published in 1980. Short interviews with a ton of folks, as you see by the list (shown below) on the back cover. My initial interest in this book was that it included New Yorker contributors such as Renata Adler, John McPhee, Donald Barthelme, John Cheever, John
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