My New Yorker colleague, Roland High, alerted me to a site loaded with video interviews conducted for Adam Van Doren’s 2000 documentary, James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times. These are unedited video interviews of, among others, Frank Modell, John Updike, Lillian Ross, and Roger Angell. All the interviews are Thurber-centric. __________________________________________________________ James Thurber’s A-Z Entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December
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Latest Addition to the Spill Library: Coping with The ’70s — a New Yorker Advertising Booklet The number of New Yorker ad booklets seems endless. I wonder if anyone kept track of how many were produced. Just this week, six more have been added to the Spill‘s library (the other five haven’t arrived yet — I’m just showing you the
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A Bound Volume Of New Yorker Covers It’s usually the unexpected odd items that turn up on Ebay that I find most interesting. The most recent example is a thin bound volume of New Yorker covers that showed up a few weeks back (the covers were detached from single issues). The covers are beautifully
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Stoliar’s Addams Birthday Salute With Steve Stoliar‘s permission, I’m showing you his Addams Birthday tribute in its entirety (as seen on Facebook): On this day in 1912, Charles Samuel Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey. His macabre cartoons festooned copies of “The New Yorker” magazine from 1933 until his death in 1988 and – of course – spawned “The
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