50 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker It’s always fun time traveling through The New Yorker‘s archives. This morning I took a look at the issue of April 28, 1975. The truly wonderful cover is by the late great
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Friday Spill: Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: The 25th, 50th, and 75th Anniversary Issues; Audio Of Interest…New Yorker Editor David Remnick On The Brian Lehrer Show…GOAT Celebrates
Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: The 25th, 50th, and 75th Anniversary Issues I thought it would be fun on this Friday, the day The New Yorker‘s 100th Anniversary issue closes, and just days before it is published, to take a quick look at how the magazine celebrated its other “big” milestones. If you have a subscription, you can spend
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Wednesday Spill: Edward Sorel’s New Yorker Horse Drawn Carriage Cover: A “Funny Sight Gag” Or Tina Vs. Ross? Or Tina & Ross?
Back in the old days, around the Fall of 1992 let’s say, when Tina Brown‘s very first edited issue of The New Yorker hit the newsstand, much was made of the Edward Sorel cover showing a “punker” riding in a horse drawn carriage, often referred to as a Hansom cab. Some suggested it was symbolic: the old New Yorker (symbolized
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Thurber Thursday: The Dog Wish; Video Of Interest…Barry Blitt; Latest Addition To The Spill Archive…A William Steig Paperweight
“Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog” — James Thurber ________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest…Barry Blitt From The New Yorker, November 4, 2024, “How The Artist Barry Blitt Turns Politics Into Cartoon Cover Gold” Mr. Blitt has been contributing to The New
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