A good many books anchoring the Spill‘s library — books heavily favoring text over cartoons that is — are books by and about the White and Angell family. After hearing of Roger Angell’s passing yesterday, I spent some time looking over these books. I keep them on the shelf together — a never ending family reunion. You can’t really think
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Exciting news, particularly for those who love James Thurber’s original art: Christie’s has put up three lots of Thurber drawings (one lot includes books with drawings). Altogether there are 26 pieces up for grabs. Lot 423: 8 drawings, some of them were published in The New Yorker, including this classic drawing from the issue of November 28, 1936: Lot 424:
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— This piece was originally posted in December of 2013. It has been updated and expanded. When I moved to Manhattan in the fall of 1976, just out of college, I was on a mission to be published by The New Yorker. Little did I know, when I rented an apartment at 113 West
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Thurber’s Favorite Thurber Book (And E.B. White’s Favorite Thurber Book) — This account derived from Burton Bernstein’s Thurber: A Biography, and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Hard Times, and Edwin Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography It was September of 1939; Germany had invaded Poland the first day of the month. Thurber and his wife, Helen, were
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