Thurber’s Shakespeare The other day I ran (online) into this wonderful double page spread in the September 1935 issue of Stage Magazine: “James Thurber Presents William Shakespeare.” Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography, is ever-so-slightly off in his accounting of the Stage drawings, saying there are four drawings (there are five). Not clear to me why these were run white
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Last Friday, my New Yorker cartoonist colleague (and wife), Liza Donnelly and I, made a trip west to Columbus, Ohio to join in the festivities surrounding the awarding of the Thurber Prize For American Humor (the winner was Steven Rowley for The Guncle). Our part was to deliver the following (after a few minutes of on-stage banter): “As long time
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Just when I thought I’d seen every Thurber cover story, along came the issue of The Saturday Review shown here: Within the issue is a great review (shown below) of The Thurber Carnival by William Rose Benet, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the fellow who founded The Saturday Review (the Thurber portrait on the cover is a wood engraving by
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Here’s a short film and article I missed: from the Ohio State University Alumni Magazine, Summer 2019, “James Thurber At 125” …and one more post missed: from Literary Hub, August 2019, “Dorothy Parker On Her Old Pal James Thurber” (a reprint of Ms. Parker’s wonderful introduction to Thurber’s 1932 collection The Seal In The Bedroom with some fun pieces from
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