Wednesday Spill: Event Of Interest: Liana Finck & David Sipress In Conversation; Book Of Interest: Steinberg’s Literary Journeys…”My Line Wants To Remind Constantly That It Is Made Of Ink”

Event Of Interest: Liana Finck & David Sipress In Conversation

Two days in a row of noting a pairing of cartoonists! Dreaming and Drawing: A Conversation with New Yorker Cartoonists Liana Finck and David Sipress”  

Liana finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here. 

David Sipress began contributing to the magazine in 1998. Visit his website here. 

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Book Of Interest: Steinberg’s Literary Journeys

…And the second day in a row of mentioning a Steinberg book…this one unknown to me until yesterday: Jessica R. Feldman’s Saul Steinberg’s Literary Journeys: Nabokov, Joyce, and Others (University of Virginia Press, 2021). 

(My thanks to Edward Koren for bringing it to my attention).

Text from the publisher: 

“Saul Steinberg’s inimitable drawings, paintings, and assemblages enriched the New Yorker, gallery and museum shows, and his own books for more than half a century. Although the literary qualities of Steinberg’s work have often been noted in passing, critics and art historians have yet to fathom the specific ways in which Steinberg meant drawing not merely to resemble writing but to be itself a type of literary writing. Jessica R. Feldman’s Saul Steinberg’s Literary Journeys, the first book-length critical study of Steinberg’s art and its relation to literature, explores his complex literary roots, particularly his affinities with modernist aesthetics and iconography.” 

 

 

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