Thurber Thursday: Noting Thurber’s 128th Birthday

Above: Thurber in Life magazine, March 14, 1960 How serendipitous that James Thurber’s birthday falls on Thurber Thursday! The great artist and humorist was born 128 years ago today in Columbus, Ohio. The Thurber House in Columbus is celebrating today with “seasonal music, carols and hot chocolate.” I think of the above books as must-haves for anyone interested in Thurber.

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Tuesday Spill: A New Yorkery Summer Library

  For the past twenty-seven summers, my wife, Liza Donnelly, and I have gone to the same Downeast home, and over those years, have built a small library of books, some New Yorker-centric (but many having nothing to do with the magazine). Copies of all of The New Yorkery books in Maine are also in the Spill‘s library back home

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