Over the past six decades, you’ve probably seen his many New Yorker covers, his political satire in The Nation, his cartoons in New York magazine, his caricatures in Vanity Fair. Sorel, 92, has indeed had a profusely illustrated life. But if there’s one thing I learned from his memoir, it’s that the guy’s a mensch, and one with a solid regard for jobbers on a deadline. Sorel, then, apologies in advance: I can only assume that seeing this byline will be pretty anticlimactic - or perhaps his habitual modesty has rubbed off.
Toward the end of Edward Sorel’s new memoir, “Profusely Illustrated,” the veteran artist describes first seeing, in these pages, a cover review, written by Woody Allen, of his 2017 book “Mary Astor’s Purple Diary.” “To say that it made me ‘very happy’ would be an understatement,” he writes of the glorious moment. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED A Memoir By Edward Sorel
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