A Few Moments With E.B. White’s Boathouse A Boathouse The photographer, Jill Krementz’s cover photo of E.B. White that appears on her 1980 book of photographs, The Writer’s Image, has entranced me (and plenty of others, I’m sure) since I first spotted the book way back when it as published. I remain wowed by it, and by the place it
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A Little More Updike On Thurber I really enjoy following the breadcrumbs often found in books of collected letters (and biographies). An interesting mention can lead me to leave the book in hand and begin searching elsewhere. This morning I came across this footnote on page 333 in the newly published Selected Letters Of John Updike: “Updike’s piece, ‘On Meeting
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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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