Yesterday afternoon, a “funny” moment: I was going through a manila folder at the bottom of a box full of James Thurber-centric manila folders (all courtesy of Michael Rosen) when I came across this undated news clipping by James Thurber that began: “Just the other afternoon, I was going through an old manila envelope containing the odds and ends,
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Sunday Reading A rainy and windy day drive yesterday through winding rolling roads to visit my favorite used bookstore, Rogers Book Barn in Hillsdale, New York. On the way, I came across not one, but two large snapping turtles, side-by-side, planning to cross a country road. Took it as a sign (a sign of what I don’t know). At Rogers
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Bruce Eric Kaplan Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Bruce Eric Kaplan (BEK) is the latest guest on the always entertaining Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Listen to it here (It’s episode # 204 for those keeping track). Mr. Kaplan, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1991, appears in the upper left of this screenshot.
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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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