“What Do You Think About This Caption?” There are enough Thurber books around to keep me re-reading til the lights go out. Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times is just about at the top of my re-read list, although Burton Bernstein’s 1975 Thurber: a Biography is dearer to me. It was my first introduction to a Thurber biography,
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Latest Addition To The Spill Archive: “A Thurber Carnival” Program Last Spring, while visiting the Thurber House, I ran into the poster shown below for A Thurber Carnival. It immediately brought to mind Burton Bernstein‘s passage about Thurber returning to Columbus for the play’s premier: “On January 7, 1960, A Thurber Carnival opened at the Hartman Theater in Columbus, Ohio…Of
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“The Little Man” 1927 was a very big year for James Thurber. The February 26th issue carried his very first New Yorker appearances (two pieces of verse in the same issue).
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Jabberwock? I don’t claim to know about all things Thurber. My focus this past half century has been his drawings and collecting his books, with a particular emphasis on the former. I’m still learning about material that appeared after Thurber’s passing in November of 1961. Case in point: just last night, I learned of a 1972 play, Jabberwock, based on
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