Back in December of 2013 Ink Spill ran a piece, “John Lennon & James Thurber: A Sunnier Connection.” To celebrate John Lennon’s birthday, I’m re-posting that piece, albeit in slightly edited form. Anyone familiar with John Lennon’s and James Thurber’s drawings can’t help but see some cross-pollination from Thurber to Lennon. Lennon’s drawings, published in 1964’s In His Own
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John Lennon & James Thurber: A Sunnier Connection
This coming Sunday, the 8th of December, marks two anniversaries of note, one happy and the other not at all happy. The happier one: James Thurber was born that day in 1894. The unhappy anniversary: it was on that day in 1980 that the former Beatle, John Lennon was murdered in New York City. Other than that
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