Is Sex Necessary? (Again) Back in May, the Spill reported that James Thurber and E.B. White’s 1929 classic, Is Sex Necessary? had entered the public domain. The below version, published last month, showed up during one of my daily searches yesterday. We’ve come a long long way from that first edition. __________________________________________________________________________ Here’s a selection of the title published before
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Personal History: Thurber’s The Years With Ross Up in Maine, briefly, as summer ends, I wandered this morning over to a row of books in the cabin we’re in and was surprised to see a paperback copy of James Thurber’s The Years With Ross. I didn’t
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Two weeks ago today I Spilled about getting hold of the 1950 21st anniversary edition of James Thurber & E.B. White’s Is Sex Necessary? (and not too long before that I mentioned buying a 1990 modern edition). This past Sunday, after some time browsing at my favorite used bookstore, Rogers Book Barn, I was about to head out the door when
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Article Of Interest: “What’s So Funny About James Thurber?” When I first came across the title of this article by Holly Brubach that appeared in the November 1982 issue of Vogue, I thought, “Oh brother, here we go — another rethinking of Thurber’s place in American letters.” But once I got hold of and read the two page article (available
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