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
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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
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1960s Saxon Movie Posters In the Spill‘s inbox yesterday, courtesy of The New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan, these posters by the late great Charles Saxon, from the 1969 film, If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. Looking around the web for any other info on the film, I ran across a couple of other usages of Saxon’s art on
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It’s a funny thing: in all these years of mentioning Thurber’s classic “What have you done with Dr. Millmoss?” as a life-changer when I was about 16 (most recently in last night’s Norman Rockwell live stream) I’ve always failed to mention that my first encounter with Thurber was several years earlier, when my 10th grade English class was instructed to
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