The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "There are secret ceremonies and things..." Poems: "Edward Hopper (Yellow and Red)" by W. S. DiPiero: Not exactly an ekphrasis,...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: The Weekend Special (Mar 11)
The Weekend Special (Mar 18) Welcome to the Weekend Special. Pieces are given up to three Munros (for fiction) or Sontags (for essays). As with restaurant...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: March 18, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of March 18 "'nothing,' 'hungry people,' 'dogs,' 'soldiers,' 'stairs,' 'houses,' 'gardens,' 'infidels,' 'my father.'" The...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "You're not supposed to..." Poems: "Late Shift" by Amy Woolard: There is a lot here. This has the feeling of many, many pages...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: The Weekend Special (Mar 11)
The Weekend Special (Mar 11) Welcome to the Weekend Special. Bear with me, these are going to come out on Mondays sometimes. We've hit the goal, so the...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: March 11, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of March 11 "The first day I met him, we drank a whole bottle of Jack Daniel's and I was laying on the couch going, 'Uhhh,' and...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Unfortunately, the balloons are..." Poems: "Invitation" by Daniel Halpern: Halpern is the white-afroed Ecco Press guy, he's...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: The Weekend Special (Mar 4)
The Weekend Special (Mar 4) Welcome to the Weekend Special. Today there's a fiction review for you, and we're 4 paid subscribers away from also including the...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: March 4, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of March 4 "Now we've reached her, lo! the Captain / Gallant Kidd commands the crew / Passengers now their berths are clapt in /...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "He thinks..." Due to a technical issue, this newsletter initially sent with all links broken. Since there are just 90 of you...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "He thinks..." My apologies for the delay, dear readers. Buttondown encountered a rare glitch and deleted my 95%-written...
Last Week's New Yorker Review: The Weekend Special (Feb 26)
The Weekend Special (Feb 26) Welcome to the Weekend Special (which will hopefully be published within the actual weekend, in future.) We're starting with...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: February 26, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of February 26 "'The parchment is hairy,' one disgruntled scribe penned on an offending manuscript." We're still 8 paid...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "This is embarrassing." Poems: "Thought a Rarity on Paper" by Billy Collins: Relatively tolerable for Collins because it's...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: Fiction Extravaganza
Last Week’s New Yorker, fiction extravaganza. "swirling a dollop of Ampro gel with Vaseline so that the gel wouldn’t crust up." We're now just 8 paid...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: February 12 & 19, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of February 12 & 19 "I was also friendly with a plainspoken girl jock who covered her notebooks with Magic Marker drawings of...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "This winged toddler..." Poems: "Definition" by Michael Ondaatje: An extended etymological dive into Sanskrit is quite lovely...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: February 5, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of February 5 "It's like if you take a fifty-year-old car, in pristine condition, out of the garage and start using it on your...
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement
The Cartoon & Poem Supplement "Howard isn't very ambitious." Poems: "Silo" by Sophie Cabot Black: A strange, fragmented vision of the singular "one to ladder...
Last Week’s New Yorker Review: January 29, 2024
Last Week’s New Yorker, week of January 29 "How handsome you are. You're lovely! And how welcoming! You're kind and full of crickets – I think they're...