The Spill celebrates James Thurber every Thursday (“Thurber Thursday”) but as his 130th birthday falls on a Sunday this year, we’ll blow a trumpet in his honor today. Here’s a really terrif interview with him from 1956 conducted by Alistair Cooke. The interview took place at Thurber’s “great good place” in Cornwall, Connecticut. Below: Thurber with his second
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The Tilley Watch Online, December 2-6, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Adam Douglas Thompson, Mads Horwath (with Natalya Lobanova), Felipe Galindo, Emily Flake, Lindsey Budde. See them here. Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons (2024). ________________________________________________________________________ An Ended Collection Every year, from 1984 through 2017,
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________________________________________________________________ Event Of Interest: Ed Steed In Frenchtown From The Frenchtown Bookshop website, “New Yorker Cartoonist Edward Steed, Forces Of Nature“. Mr. Steed will be at the bookstore January 23rd, from 6:30-7:30. — Above, left: Mr. Steed’s self-portrait; on the right, his first collection of cartoons. _______________________________________________________________ Adam Douglas Thompson Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
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Latest Addition to The Thurber Library The second German title this week! An Arno collection was mentioned here on Tuesday. I won’t be acquiring every single foreign Thurber title I come across, but as this one’s theme is dogs, I couldn’t resist (I couldn’t resist the cover graphics either). It’s a 1958 paperback edition of Thurber’s Dogs, originally published in
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