The New Yorker Cartoons That Raised Me
Roger Angell on growing up in a black-and-white world of cocktail parties, psychiatrists, talking dogs, and the deeply other.
On a literal upbringing with cartoons: "When I say that I grew up looking at New Yorker cartoons, I do not speak in metaphorical terms." Angell's mother was an editor from the magazine's first year, and their house was always full of photocopied drawings.