

Jessica Chastain stars in “A Doll’s House. I periodically submit captions for The New Yorkers cartoon contest.Jessica Chastain stars in “A Doll’s House.”.Senga Nengudi’s journeys through air, water, and sand.Central Cee brings Americans on a tour of British hip-hop.How Maylis de Kerangal turns work into writing.Matthew Desmond argues that poverty persists because we let it.An entomologist races to find caterpillars before they disappear.

Carrillo’s inventions went too far.Īnnals of Science: A Little-Known Planet Onward and Upward in the Garden: Pay Dirt We open the show by discussing the New Yorker Caption Contest winner for Contest 850 (Death guitar), Finalists for Contest 852 (Frog on a pizza) and the current Contest 854 (Business man in pool).
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Shouts & Murmurs: How to Tell if You’re in a TV Show On this week's episode, we're joined once again by Larry Wood.
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“I am a professional joke writer for a professional TV show and I truly can’t touch any of this,” said Bess. Amy talks about how she became a cartoonist and breaking into The New Yorker. On part 2 of this weeks episode, we interview cartoonist Amy Kurzweil. The original post has been retweeted almost 5,000 times in less than 12 hours. Listen to this episode from New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast on Spotify. Personally, I’m a huge fan of Alice’s earlier work (2017). “There are so many,” she tweeted, “and every single one of them is perfect.” At least 5,000 would-be wordsmiths play the contest each week of those, three entries are selected by the magazine as finalists, and the winner is chosen in an online vote. “Everything is terrible but my cousin’s 9-year-old daughter Alice has been quietly and masterfully slaying the New Yorker’s caption contest and it’s pure delight,” she wrote.īess says Alice grabs every issue before her mum can get a hold of it and fills them in. Larry Wood's forte is winning the New Yorker's Caption Contest, in which readers are invited to submit the perfect quip to accompany the magazine's back-page cartoon. Alice, 9, had her works of pure art posted to Twitter by her family member, the Emmy-nominated Jimmy Kimmel Live writer Bess Kalb.
