There are two fave Thurber biographies in this house: Burton Bernstein’s Thurber: A Biography, and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life And Times. I like to think of them as perfect bookends to any Thurber collection. Bernstein’s (left), at 532 pages is the quick read; Kinney’s is 1,238. I think of the two books as I think of my two
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Well-Thumbed: Thurber. A Biography by Burton Bernstein
There are three New Yorker-related books that have stood the test of interest for me since the mid 1970s when the New Yorker became the place I wanted and had to be: The Thurber Carnival, Brendan Gill’s Here At The New Yorker, and Burton Bernstein’s Thurber. A box-ful of New Yorker-related books have been published since (and a smaller
Read moreFave Bookstore Find of the Day; Nice Price At a Price
Fave Bookstore Find of the Day The other day while browsing around my favorite used bookstore, Rodgers Book Barn, with two New Yorker pals (John Cuneo and Danny Shanahan) the above book caught my eye because of the Thurber drawing. My eyes widened when I realized I had never seen this particular book before (or had I?). It turned out
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My my my, there certainly are a lot of books about my cartoonist hero, James Thurber. I thought it would be fun to show the ones in the Spill‘s library, but ran into two more while checking online for any current titles I’d missed ( #11, listed below, is out just this month…are there even more? Let me know). Three
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