Thurber Thursday: Thurber’s Shakespeare

Thurber’s Shakespeare   The other day I ran (online) into this wonderful double page spread in the September 1935 issue of Stage Magazine: “James Thurber Presents William Shakespeare.” Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography, is ever-so-slightly off in his accounting of the Stage drawings, saying there are four drawings (there are five). Not clear to me why these were run white

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Thurber Thursday: Fave Photo Of The Day…Edward Frascino & Liza Donnelly; James Thurber’s “Drawings in Periodicals”

  Fave Photo Of The Day: Liza Donnelly & Edward Frascino This photo taken yesterday in Santa Monica. Ms. Donnelly is visiting the left coast, Mr. Frascino lives there.   Edward Frascino began contributing to The New Yorker in September of 1965 (he was the subject of an Ink Spill interview in 2020, celebrating his 90th birthday).   Ms. Donnelly began contributing

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