Whither Whither, or After Sex What? Edited by Walter S. Hankel (1930, The Macaulay Co., NY) I’ve always loved this book more for its cover than its content. It was published just five years after the birth of The New Yorker, and a year before Thurber’s first drawing appeared in the magazine (January of 1931). That isn’t to
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A blast from the past: Meet the Artist
In 1943, San Francisco’s M.H. De Young Memorial Museum held an exhibit of artist’s self portraits called “Meet the Artist.” The catalog, 8 1/2″ x 7 3/4″ is a gem. Of the 188 artists represented, a number are New Yorker contributors: James Thurber, Saul Steinberg, Otto Soglow, Mischa Richter, Richard Taylor, Alajalov, Whitney Darrow, Jr., Richard Decker, Roberta MacDonald,
Read moreFlannery O’Connor’s Cartoons
From The Guardian, July 5, 2011, “A fresh look at Flannery O’Connor: you may know her prose, but have you seen her cartoons?”
Read moreVideo snippet: James Thurber on The Seal in the Bedroom
Continuing on from yesterday’s post on Bob Mankoff’s piece about Thurber, Mankoff links to a video snippet of Thurber’s appearance with Alastair Cooke on Omnibus. Watch here as Thurber talks about one of his most famous drawings, The Seal in the Bedroom. Previous to the July 26, 2011 DVD release, Omnibus: American Profiles only a fragment of Thurber’s Omnibus
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