“Seneca At The General Store” is a special contribution from Edward Koren’s long-time friend, the author Howard Norman. (Mr. Koren passed away in April of 2023). This is the second installment from Mr. Norman (and Mr. Koren’s) in-the-works, “No Conversation Long Enough: Ed Koren’s Haiku Dialogues”. (The first can be found here). My thanks to Howard Norman for permission to
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A Group…Arno, Arno, Sorel, Koren This see-sawing weather day (cloudless, cloudy, warm, chilly) seemed a good time to put together another group of New Yorker folks. From the top left: an original sketch page (undated) by Peter Arno,
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: dinner & dragons The Cartoonists And Cartoons: The Caption Contest Cartoonists: Lonnie Millsap, Michael Maslin, Hilary Campbell Seventeen new cartoons, twenty cartoonists, including the contest cartoonists. (Liana Finck has a Sketchbook). No newbies. Two duos, that we
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Ed Koren, who passed away this past April, would’ve turned 88 today. The Spill celebrates Ed’s birthday with a special contribution from his long-time friend, the author Howard Norman (shown below, center left, with Ed in 1990). I contacted Mr. Norman after hearing him speak at Ed’s memorial in September. At the memorial, Mr. Norman spoke of a haiku series
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