This week, The New Yorker has released a special issue comprising fifty Talk of the Town pieces from the past decade. Each of the Talk stories in this special issue (which is available only on newsstands and in our iPad app) focusses on an interesting person, and is accompanied by an illustration by Tom Bachtell, whose drawings grace the section each week. Here, Bachtell and Susan Morrison, who edits The Talk of the Town, talk about the illustrations and the issue.
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