Jabberwock? I don’t claim to know about all things Thurber. My focus this past half century has been his drawings and collecting his books, with a particular emphasis on the former. I’m still learning about material that appeared after Thurber’s passing in November of 1961. Case in point: just last night, I learned of a 1972 play, Jabberwock, based on
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“…Blame The Unconscious, I Guess” As mentioned a few Thurber Thursdays ago, I’ve been once again re-visiting Harrison Kinney’s massive James Thurber: His Life And Times. I happened upon this passage yesterday that I could easily identify with [it’s on page 421]. Thurber is speaking (in an interview with Kinney) about how his famous “house that merges into the head
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Somewhat like a digital version of throwing a dart at a map, and then exploring where the dart lands, I went to The New Yorker‘s database this afternoon thinking I’d explore a random issue for Thurber drawings. I chose 1935 (for no reason), and found, amazingly, there was an April 20, 1935 issue. Here’s what I found, Thurber-related, in that
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Re- Revisiting Harrison Kinney’s Thurber Biography When Harrison Kinney’s twelve hundred page Thurber biography was published in 1995, I thought of it as a grand treasure chest. It’s heavy, and it’s stuffed with an unbelievable amount of Thurber gold (i.e., information). You want mini-biographies of the founding writers and editors of The New Yorker? This is the book for you.
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