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David Levine on writers: Charles Dickens

David Levine (1926-2009) was one of America’s most prominent illustrators during a career that spanned decades. No less an authority than Jules Feiffer described him as "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th century,” although Levine continued to work in the early years of this century as well. Levine’s subjects included himself (above) and people from many walks of life. Authors, scribes and scribblers were a big part of the mix, as these caricatures make clear.

Lit Toons: Cartoons with a bookish bent

Grant Snider

First Lines: Steve Stern

Sometime during his restless fifteenth year, Bernie Karp discovered in his parents’ food freezer – a white enameled Kelvinator humming in the corner of the basement rumpus room – an old man frozen in a block of ice.

The Frozen Rabbi

Steve Stern

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on June 29

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  (1900)
Breece D'J Pancake  (1952)

John Toland  (1912)

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Bellabooks, Belfast, Maine