The New Yorker’s First New Year’s Cover It seems only right that the New Yorker began a new year with a cover by Rea Irvin, and that Irvin would include Eustace Tilley (appearing, cuckoo clock-like at the stroke of midnight). It was Irvin’s 9th cover in approximately ten months. Tilley made two other appearances in the same issue (not counting
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Thursday Spill: Happy ’26
A Very Happy ’26 To All! –Above: a long long ago rejected New Yorker cover idea (one of many!). I dust it off on the first day of every new year. Note: Thurber
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Wednesday Spill: Interview Of Interest With Liza Donnelly; Mary Norris’ New Shouts & Murmurs Feature; Gil Roth’s Podcast Takes A Break
Interview Of Interest With Liza Donnelly From Two Moons, December 2025, “Conversation With Liza Donnelly: Drawing Power, Humor, And Women’s Lives Into View” Liza Donnelly began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979. She is the co-director (with Kathleen Hughes) of the 2025 documentary film, Women Laughing. _______________________________________________________ New New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs Feature Of Interest: Mary
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Tuesday Spill: A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of December 21, 1935; Attempted Bloggery Looks At Addams’ Unicorn And Bliss’s; The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; A Note Of Thanks
A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of December 21, 1935 A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine closes out 2025 with its patented close look-see of an issue from long long ago. In this case it’s the issue of December 21, 1935 Read here. –Cover: Ilonka Karasz __________________________________________________
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