Chast A National Humanities Medalist
The Spill congratulates Roz Chast on her award!
She began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 1978.
Here’s the photo & text Ms. Chast posted on social media this morning:
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Ms. Chast’s A-Z Entry:
Roz Chast Born, Brooklyn, NY. New Yorker work: July 3, 1978 – . Key collections: Unscientific Americans (Dolphin/Doubleday, 1982), Theories of Everything (Bloomsbury, 2006) Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2014). Website: rozchast.com/
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Pub Day For Bruce Eric Kaplan’s They Went Another Way: A Hollywood Memoir
Mr. Kaplan began contributing to The New Yorker in 1991. His new book, They Went Another Way: A Hollywood Memoir (from Macmillan) is out today.
More BEK reading:
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Fave Photo Of The Week: An Algonquin Roundtable Of Cartoonists
The above photo was posted yesterday on social media by The Algonquin Hotel with this text:
Seen in the photo (by Eric Korenman), treating the table as a clock, from 12 noon, going clockwise: Liza Donnelly, Emily Sanders Hopkins, Liana Finck, Emily Flake, Roz Chast, Amy Hwang, Victoria Roberts, Bishakh Som, Arantza Pena Popo, Maggie Larson.
Link here to the Women Laughing website.
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Chris Wheeler, whose site is a must-see for those who love New Yorker cartoons, recently discovered this interesting variant on the The Sixth New Yorker Album. This particular dust jacket (below left), published in the UK by John Lane Bodley Head Ltd., is substantially different from the US cover (shown below right).
