When Do They Serve the Wine?: The Folly, Flexibility, and Fun of Being a Woman
By Liza Donnelly and Roz Chast
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Liza Donnelly
Liza Donnelly is a staff cartoonist for the New Yorker and has authored several books. She lives in New York.
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When Do They Serve the Wine? - Liza Donnelly
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Introduction
By Roz Chast, staff cartoonist, The New Yorker
Some wine with your vest?
I’ve known Liza since we were both fledgling cartoonists in the late 1970s. We were in our early 20s, single, and living in New York City in semi-genteel, semi-ramshackle apartments on the Upper West Side. We met while submitting work to The New Yorker and, as we became professional cartoonists, we also became friends. We have seen each other through many aspects of life as a woman: dating and boyfriends; building careers from scratch; weddings, husbands, and marriages; getting and being pregnant; living the single life in the city, living the family life in the burbs; seeing our kids speed from preschool through college; and beyond.
I still remember my first visit to the cartoon department of The New Yorker quite well. You didn’t just walk in there. You had to be invited by Lee Lorenz, the art editor at that time. Unknown cartoon-ists dropped off their work with the woman manning the little glass-enclosed booth on the 20th floor. If you were invited to show your work, she buzzed you in, and you got to go back to the cartoon offices. The first office is where the editor, Lee Lorenz, worked. Next there was a small office for his assistant, Anne Hall. The third room was where the cartoonists sat