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Mayhew Library, Addison, Maine

David Levine on writers: William Safire

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

Macanudo

First Lines: James Cañón

The day the men disappeared started as a typical Sunday morning in Mariquita: the roosters forgot to announce dawn, the sexton overslept, the church bell didn't summon the faithful to attend the early service, and (as on every Sunday for the past ten years) only one person showed up for six o'clock mass: Doña Victoria viuda de Morales, the Morales widow.

Tales From the Town of Widows & Chronicles From the Land of Men

James Cañón

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on February 3

Paul Auster  (1947) 
Sidney Lanier  (1842) 

James Michener  (1907) 
Clarence Mulford  (1883)

Gertrude Stein  (1874)
Simone Weil  (1909)

Richard Yates  (1926) 

 

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