Inside the mind of one of the New Yorker’s most iconic cartoonists
Apple News In Conversation
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🗓️ 25 January 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Roz Chast started at the New Yorker in 1978, when there was only one other woman cartoonist at the magazine. Decades later, she is a celebrated figure in the cartoon world and has become well-known for her distinctive style and humor. Her latest book, I Must Be Dreaming, is an illustrated guide to Chast’s dreams and the inner workings of her mind. Chast spoke with Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu about following her artistic intuition, the popularity of New Yorker cartoons, and her collection of canned goods.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's Shimita here. This is the last interview I recorded before going on maternity leave. |
| 0:06.0 | Starting next week, you're going to hear some great guest hosts filling in for me while I'm away. |
| 0:10.0 | So, until then, enjoy this episode. |
| 0:13.0 | This is in conversation from Apple News. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Shemeeth Abasu. |
| 0:21.0 | Today, Inside the Mind of one of the New Yorker's most recognizable cartoonists. The other night, Ross Chast looked in the mirror and discovered to my horror that I have a metal rod sticking out of my temple. |
| 0:46.0 | So she pulls out the rod, which was painless and I examined the hole. |
| 0:52.0 | And she's totally freaked out by what she sees. |
| 0:55.0 | It's a third eye. |
| 0:58.0 | It is not cool. It is not mystical. |
| 1:01.0 | It is tiny and it's kind of disgusting, it's gross. |
| 1:04.0 | And I hate it, but I can't get rid of it, so I decide to ignore it. |
| 1:08.0 | She just accepts her fate. |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, it's like, what am I supposed to do? |
| 1:12.0 | Like just sit here on the sofa and like freak out about this thing? |
| 1:15.0 | No, I'll, I don't know, put a bandaid over it or something or comb my hair a different way. |
| 1:21.0 | As you might have figured out by now, this didn't happen in real life. It happened in a dream. |
| 1:26.8 | Our dreams follow a bizarre kind of logic, and Ross tries to capture some of that weirdness in her latest |
| 1:34.5 | illustrated book called I Must Be Dreaming. Ross has been a cartoonist for the |
| 1:40.3 | New Yorker for decades. Her style is instantly recognizable. She draws with these frantic, almost |
| 1:46.9 | jittery lines. Her cartoons generally find the humor in the everyday anxieties of modern life. |
| 1:55.0 | I started by asking Ross about her early career as a cartoonist. |
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