I recently picked up Mary Dearborn’s Ernest Hemingway: A Biography (Knopf, 2017). With biographies, I usually go right to the index to check out New Yorker intersections and found plenty on Lillian Ross (because of her well-known portrait of Hemingway, “How Do You Like it Now, Gentlemen? The Moods Of Ernest Hemingway” that ran in the issue of May 13,
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John Updike’s Want List At 17 Noted in the just published Selected Letters of John Updike, edited by James Schiff: a postcard sent by a 17 year old John Updike to Barnes & Noble, dated June 15, 1949, requesting the following books be held for him: ______________________________________________________________ Unfortunate Cover Art By now, I shouldn’t be surprised when I run across
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Personal History…Dust Jacket Of Interest…Addams’s Here At The New Yorker Charles Addams’s dust jacket art for Brendan Gill’s 1975 Here At The New Yorker remains, to this day, my favorite of all the books out there about the magazine. I was still in college the year the book was published; Gill’s book, along with Burton Bernstein’s Thurber: A Biography
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“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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