“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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Thurber Thursday: Jabberwock?
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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Thurber Thursday: Re-Revisiting Harrison Kinney’s Thurber Biography
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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Thurber Thursday: Thoughts While Driving Through Ellsworth, Maine
I can’t be in Maine without thinking of the Whites, E.B. and Katharine (and Roger Angell of course). On our yearly long drive up here we pass through Ellsworth, one of the “big towns” close to Brooklin where the White’s saltwater farm is located. Anyone who has read White’s classic collection of essays, One Man’s Meat will come across
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