Bliss Book & Book Tour Harry Bliss’s new book, You Can Never Die, will be out at the end of this month (April 29th). The next day he’ll be out and about promoting it. Here’s the schedule (for details go here). Visit his website here. ________________________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State Of Mind Digs Into the April 6, 1935 Issue of
Read more
This week’s republication of a 1936 James Thurber New Yorker cover sent me over the moon (honestly, any Thurber art on the cover would’ve). It also sent me back, via The New Yorker‘s online archive to that year’s covers, and cover artists. Anytime I look at issues of many years gone by I experience a that was then, this is
Read more
Personal History: Reading Thurber for The Very First Time I’ve always found it interesting that of all the stories I was assigned to read in junior high school and then later in high school, I only remember one. Not too long before I first saw a Thurber drawing (“What have you done with Dr. Millmoss?”) — perhaps a year, maybe
Read more
Of all the New Yorker Albums published, it is the first one that sends off the biggest charge when I spot it on a shelf (honestly, it’s not hard to miss. I have one of the above copies set on a shelf with its cover facing out). Over time I’ve ended up with the three you see above, plus, I
Read more