One Day, I'm Going to Write for The New Yorker

One Day, I'm Going to Write for The New Yorker

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One Day, I'm Going to Write for The New Yorker
One Day, I'm Going to Write for The New Yorker
Cartoonist Zoe Si on how her New Yorker cartoons changed her life, and didn't

Cartoonist Zoe Si on how her New Yorker cartoons changed her life, and didn't

Zoe was recently nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her New Yorker cartoons, but she still has a to-do list

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Apr 10, 2023
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Cartoonist Zoe Si on how her New Yorker cartoons changed her life, and didn't
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Zoe Si and I have the exact same framed treasure sitting next to our desks; while we’re talking, we both pull them off the wall and show them to one another like challenge coins or secret society rings. The treasure is the cover of the Syrup Trap print edition, one of the few physical artifacts of a humour magazine we worked on together a decade ago. In…

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