My 17-page 2025 Winter Reading Guide is live! The guide contains 45 recent and upcoming releases (that you won't see lots of other places) plus new titles in book series, fiction/nonfiction pairings, stellar mystery series and some anticipated spring and summer releases. If you are interested, fill out the Google form and submit a tip of your choosing.
David Sipress has been staff cartoonist since 1998 for The New Yorker, where he has published nearly 700 cartoons. He lectures widely on cartooning, and his autobiographical writing has appeared frequently on newyorker.com.
David and I discuss What's So Funny? A Cartoonist's Memoir, how he started creating cartoons for The New Yorker, using cartoons to process his emotions, how writing this book was cathartic and helped him better understand his parents, trying to …