78 Years Ago Today: “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” Broadcast From The Algonquin Roundtable, this audio clip of James Thurber’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, read by Robert Benchley (as part of a 1944 CBS Radio Broadcast series, “This Is My Best”). The audio clip is just 19 minutes — not the full performance. — my thanks
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Fave Photo Of The Week: Edward Sorel Gets His Reuben Here’s a fun photo taken this past Friday of National Cartoonists Society President (and New Yorker cartoonist), Jason Chatfield presenting Edward Sorel with his Reuben Award for Cartoonist Of The Year. Karen Green (Curator for Comics and Cartoons at Columbia University) took the photo (and gave me permission to
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A Thurber In Many Rooms Well here’s something a bit different for Thurber Thursday: hotel news. The “newly expanded” Hilton Hotel in downtown Columbus, Ohio is placing prints of Thurber art (the dog shown above) in many (all?) of its rooms. How great is that! Here’s part of the pr from the hotel: “The new 402 tower continues the Hilton
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Edward Koren Scholarship Announced From Seven Days, September 23, 2022, “The Center For Cartoon Studies Launches Ed Koren Scholarship” Link here to the CCS’s announcement. Here’s Edward Koren’s Spill A-Z entry: Edward Koren Born, 1935. New Yorker work: May 26, 1962 — . Key collections: Do You Want To Talk About It? ( Pantheon, 1976), Well, There’s Your Problem (Pantheon,
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