Interview Of Interest: Liza Donnelly Talks Women Laughing On WNYC Long time New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly joined WNYC’s Brian Lehrer yesterday to discuss her documentary film, Women Laughing. Listen here! The film is making its New York City premiere this Saturday at DOCNYC. More about the film here. ____________________________________________________________________ Children’s Book Reading Of Interest Matt Diffee writes in
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Thurber Illustrates In A Word…Three Ads This fun book by Margaret Ernst, originally published in 1939, contained sixty-three Thurber drawings (drawn specifically for Ernst’s book). In other words (no pun) it’s essential for any Thurber library. To promote the book, the publisher ran ads in three consecutive issues of The New Yorker, beginning with the issue of September 16, 1939.
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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
Read moreThree out of the five panelists slated to appear on tonight’s panel at The Society of Illustrators Funny Ladies event were guests on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show this morning (archived here). Above, in the WNYC studio, left to right: Liza Donnelly, Carolita Johnson, and Liana Finck
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