Audio Of Interest: “Evening At Anaheim” — A Play By James Stevenson
Here, via Youtube, is the audio for a live presentation of the late James Stevenson’s Evening At Anaheim”
Mr. Stevenson’s Spill A-Z entry:
James Stevenson Born, NYC, 1929. Died, February 17, 2017, Cos Cob, Connecticut. New Yorker work: March 10, 1956 – June 16, 2003. Stevenson interned as an office boy at The New Yorker in the mid 1940s when he began supplying ideas for other New Yorker artists. Nine years later he was hired as a full-time ideaman, given an office at the magazine and instructed not to tell anyone what he did. He eventually began publishing his own cartoons and covers as well as a ground-breaking Talk of the Town pieces (ground breaking in that the pieces were illustrated). His contributions to the magazine number over 2000. Key collections: Sorry Lady — This Beach is Private! ( MacMillan, 1963), Let’s Boogie ( Dodd, Mead, 1978). Stevenson was a children’s book author, with roughly one hundred titles to his credit. He was a frequent contributor to the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, under the heading Lost and Found New York. Stevenson’s The Life, Loves and Laughs of Frank Modell, published in 2013, is essential reading. Sally Williams’ 2019 documentary film, Stevenson Lost & Found is essential viewing.
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The Tilley Watch Online, August 30 – September 2, 2022
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features
Daily Cartoon: J.A.K., Alison Wong*, Zoe Si, Pia Guerra & Ian Boothby, Johnny DiNapoli
*an online only contributor…so far.
Daily Shouts: Ali Fitzgerald, Liana Finck.
…and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook
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Seth, A Knight
From Quill And Quire, July 13, 2022, “Seth’s Summer: Knighthood And Chamber Novella On Vinyl”
(Seth is primarily a cover artist for the magazine).
— The Spill‘s A-Z entry:
Born Gregory Gallant, 1962, Clinton, Ontario. New Yorker work: 2002 -.