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The New Yorker's New Cover Is Perfect
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 3, 2014
Modified Jan 3, 2014
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Today's blizzard is tomorrow's New Yorker cover. Well, maybe not tomorrow—it hits newsstands Monday, and will probably wander into your mailbox sometime on Thursday, but in the virtual cyberworld, we can immediately admire the cover art, illustrated by Bruce McCall. Isn't it charming? Tomorrow all of our real world snow will be reduced to a muddy, messy eyesore, but on the cover of the New Yorker it will stay pristine forever, preserved in a pile on your coffee table, forgotten and unread.
"I grew up in Canada, where blizzards were common and schools never closed because of them," says McCall. "People are starting to forget how much fun it can be to be up to your knees in snow, though it’s different in cities."
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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