The completist part of me was pleased to finally get hold of James Thurber’s The Great Quillow the other day. It was the only remaining dust-jacketed Thurber title (US title, that is*) missing from the Spill library; I’ve had a jacket-less copy of The Great Quillow for many years. Admittedly, I was in no great hurry to get hold of
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Many Moons It may seem odd that someone, such as myself, who holds Thurber’s work in the highest of the highest regard would not have a complete collection of his books. Although the Spill library does have all of Thurber’s books (published in the United States) it has always troubled me that I never got around to acquiring a hard
Read moreSlide Show of Interest: Liza Donnelly’s Live Drawings for CBS News CBS News has posted a slide show sampler of Liza Donnelly’s work from 2017 (she’s their resident cartoonist). See it here. Below: the CBS News Control Room ______________________________________________________________________ Blog of Interest: Peter Steiner’s “Hopeless But Not Serious” Peter Steiner, the artist and writer who brought us one of the
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