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Book of Interest: Conversations with William Maxwell
Barbara Burkhardt, who wrote William Maxwell: A Literary Life (University of Mississippi Press, 2005) has edited Conversations with William Maxwell (University of Mississippi Press, June, 2012....
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Wolcott Gibbs and New Yorker Cartoons
Of all the duties Wolcott Gibbs attended to during his thirty-one years at The New Yorker (and his duties were many: editor, writer, theater critic), his relationship to the magazine’s cartoonists...
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The New Yorker’s Art Meeting: A Potted History
It’s tempting to believe that the structure of The New Yorker’s Art Department arrived fully formed in 1924 when Harold Ross, with his wife Jane Grant began pulling together his dream magazine....
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Scudder Middleton, New Yorker Cartoonists Hand-Holder and More
Does the name Scudder Middleton mean anything to you? It meant a little something to me, but no so much…until recently when I decided to look a little deeper into his association with The New...
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Addams in Southampton; A look at Peter Kuper’s New York
From The New York Times, October 11, 2013 , “An Extended Addams Family; Ghoulish and Familiar Art at the Southampton Center” (left: book jacket of Addams’ 1947 collection. Introduction by Wolcott...
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The New Yorker’s New York…an Ink Spill Map
What better way to begin to close out the year here at Ink Spill than with a map of Manhattan highlighting some of the people and places most associated...
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Rea Irvin, Beyond The New Yorker
Rea Irvin, who gave us the impossibly perfect Eustace Tilley (the top-hatted dandy on the first issue of The New Yorker, February 21, 1925) was no budding flower when Harold...
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Did Arno Write Thurber?
A lot of material accumulates when you’ve been researching a subject for fifteen years. In my case, much of it was placed in a ramshackle assortment of black binders pictured here. There was also a...
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_______________________________________________________________________________ Following in the footsteps of The 40s: The Story of a Decade comes The 50s: The Story of a Decade (Both edited by Henry...
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Cast of Characters Cover: Thurber, St. Clair McKelway, Gibbs, Maloney &...
It being The New Yorker’s 90th anniversary, how fitting that the cover has been revealed for Thomas Vinciguerra’s Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber, and The Golden Age of The...
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