Latest Addition To The Spill Library…The New Yorker Reporter At Large (An Armed Service Edition) The latest addition to the Spill library, The New Yorker Reporter At Large, is the third addition to the Spill‘s New Yorker Armed Services Edition collection. It was published in March of 1946 (the Spill ‘s Armed Services Edition collection also contains books by Dorothy
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As I continue my revisit through Harrison Kinney’s massive biography of James Thurber, I continue to find moments I overlooked the first time I read it. A for instance: On page 853, Mr. Kinney quotes E.B. White’s review of The Thurber Carnival in PM (the issue of January 4, 1945): “The book contains the picture of the woman speaking into
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E.B White and James Thurber — the names go together like soup and sandwich, or, um…horse and carriage. New Yorker history buffs will recall that Thurber’s first book, Is Sex Necessary, was co-authored with E.B. White, and that the two shared an office at The New Yorker in their earliest years at the magazine. It was White who fished a
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A 1937 New Yorker Bound Volume With Tilley’s Farewell Occasionally I’ll buy a New Yorker bound volume even though some of the issues within the volume are already in the Spill library. The idea of sitting with a book has always been more enjoyable (for me) than with a single issue. Both are fun and
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