Tuesday Spill: Yet Another Steinberg “View Of The World” Take-Off; Bob Eckstein’s “American Bystander Super Bowl Recap”; Buying My Own Book

Yet Another Steinberg Take-Off

Should Saul Steinberg’s work be remembered in the future decades it will be for his “View Of The World” piece that appeared on the cover of the March 29, 1976 New Yorker.  In Deirdre Bair’s biography of Steinberg we learned that Steinberg went from cool (“cool” being an understatement) to warm (“warm” in this case meaning interested, if not fascinated by art inspired by his original idea).

Here’s yet another piece inspired by “View Of The World” (one might ask, Where will it end?, but why bother. It’ll never end). Go here to see the full poster

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Bob Eckstein’s “American Bystander Super Bowl Recap”

Here’s the one-and-only Bob Eckstein on the big game (via The American Bystander).

Bob Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007. Visit his website here. 

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Buying My Own Book

I realized a year or two ago that there were paperback copies of my 2016 biography of Peter Arno floating around various bookseller sites. Since this was news to me, I looked into it (asked my agent if there was now a paperback Arno) and was told there was not — these copies being sold online were probably advance copies/readers copies. A couple of weeks ago, after seeing more listed, I spent $22.00 on my own book to see what was being sold. A copy arrived today, and it is indeed a paperback copy, not a reader’s copy. On the inside it reads:

Made In United States

North Haven, Ct.

29 January 2025

With the ink on the pages just dry, I have to conclude there’s a service that prints one copy at a time as they are ordered. What a world.

 Other than the cover being soft, not hard, the big difference between the hardcover and soft is that the softcover does not include the lovely inside-the-cover reproductions (shown here) of a few Arno New Yorker covers.

 

 

–Shown at the top of this entry: top to bottom, the advance/readers copy, the hardcover, and the paperback.

 Lastly: 

 

There’s another Arno cover being shown on Amazon, and other places. What it is is something dreamed up by the book publisher before there was an accepted cover and title. I don’t believe there is an actual copy anywhere bearing this cover. If there is, please let me know — I’d love to have one.