The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Back in February of 1996, the New Yorker celebrated its 71st anniversary with a “Special Women’s Issue.” Of the 23 cartoonists in the issue, 20 were men. The three women cartoonists were Victoria Roberts, Roz Chast, and Liza Donnelly. The cover, a
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Krementz photographs of Addams, Steinberg, Brendan Gill, S.J. Perelman, Renata Adler, Donald Barthelme & more
I stumbled across this piece today: “Jill Krementz Covers Saul Steinberg” — it’s chock full of photographs by Krementz of Steinberg including shots of him with Charles Addams, Donald Barthelme, and Woody Allen (there’s also a photo of Charles Addams with Jackie Kennedy Onassis). Other New Yorker contributors pictured include Brendan Gill (wearing a funny straw hat), Ian
Read moreNew book: The 50 Funniest American Writers, edited by Andy Borowitz
From The Library of America, The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion , edited by Andy Borowitz, includes work by James Thurber, E.B. White, Dorothy Parker, Donald Barthelme, Veronica Geng, Tom Wolfe, Ian Frazier, Susan Orlean, Calvin Trillin, S.J. Perelman, Woody Allen, Peter De Vries, Philip Roth, and many many more.
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