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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Re- Revisiting Harrison Kinney’s Thurber Biography When Harrison Kinney’s twelve hundred page Thurber biography was published in 1995, I thought of it as a grand treasure chest. It’s heavy, and it’s stuffed with an unbelievable amount of Thurber gold (i.e., information). You want mini-biographies of the founding writers and editors of The New Yorker? This is the book for you.
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