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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“And We Won’t Aim To Please” In this year of celebrating The New Yorker‘s centennial I think it’s a good idea, every so often, to go way way back to the very beginnings of the magazine. As incredible as it may seem, the below appeared in the second issue of The New Yorker, dated February 28, 1925 (in the column,
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Now In The Public Domain: Is Sex Necessary? I just came across the four-and-a-half months old news that the original edition of E.B. White & James Thurber’s 1929 edition of Is Sex Necessary? entered the public domain as of this year. Above is the Spill‘s copy, swathed in a plastic protective cover. Seeing this edition on the shelf alongside other
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On this day, the 21st of February, the date on the very first issue of The New Yorker, I thought it would be fun to line up each anniversary issue celebrating another ten years that followed that first number. Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley cover was gilded in 1995, and sat out the 2005, and 2015 anniversary covers, but thankfully returned
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