How I Lost My Job and Found Happiness

 

By Edward Sorel

This article appeared in the February 11, 2008 edition of The Nation.

January 24, 2008

About Edward Sorel

Edward Sorel is an award-winning cartoonist who has produced many of The Nation's most memorable covers. He is also a regular contributor to The Atlantic and The New Yorker, for which he has done forty-one covers. His art has appeared on the covers of The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, Fortune, Forbes, Esquire, American Heritage and The New York Times Magazine. He has illustrated many children's books, three of which he also wrote. Unauthorized Portraits (Knopf, 1997) is the most recent of several collections of his work.

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