Philip Roth, who celebrates his 80th birthday today, was first published in The New Yorker the issue of March 14, 1959, with his story, “Defender of the Faith” causing an immediate stir (see the upcoming PBS American Masters profile “Philip Roth: Unmasked” for, among so many other things, Mr. Roth’s recollection of buying, opening up, reading and rereading his story
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Attempted Bloggery @ a New Yorker Cartoon Auction
From Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery, December 27, 2012, “New Yorker Cartoons at Auction” wherein Mr. Nadler fully examines an auction of New Yorker cartoons at The Morton Library in Rhinecliff, New York this past November.
Read moreCartoon Auction includes work by Charles Addams, Geoge Booth, and William Steig
From the Kingston (NY) Daily Freeman, “Art auction in Rhinecliff Saturday” this news of a benefit auction of cartoons, including work by New Yorker artists Charles Addams, George Booth, William Steig, Frank Modell, James Stevenson, Peter Steiner, Lee Lorenz, Harry Bliss, Barbara Smaller, Charles Barsotti, Joe Dator, Gahan Wilson, Robert Mankoff, Liza Donnelly, P.C. Vey, Roz Chast, Danny Shanahan, Carolita
Read moreSteig’s birthday
The one and only William Steig was born in Brooklyn on this day in 1907 (he died in Boston, October 3, 2007). Steig contributed over 1600 cartoons and 117 covers to The New Yorker in his 73 years with the magazine. Speaking of Steig to The New York Times in 2007, Lee Lorenz, former Art editor of The New
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