“Someone once asked Marc Connelly how you can tell a Thurber man from a Thurber woman, and he said the Thurber women have what appears to be hair on their head.” — James Thurber speaking to Alistair Cooke in 1956. Well here, in this 1935 Theatre Guild ad, is a fairly good comparison of a Thurber man and Thurber woman.
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I had such a good time writing about some of the books by New Yorker authors on the Spill‘s shelves in yesterday’s post, I thought I’d continue today (still leaving off the “A” authors). As with yesterday’s books, these are only books by New Yorker authors, not books about them (next week, I’ll show some of the books about New
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The Tilley Watch Online, December 11-15, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Will Santino, Ellis Rosen, Kit Fraser, Paul Noth, Mick Stevens. Daily Shouts: Olivia de Recat (with Timothy Cahill and Ryan Walls). _____________________________________________________________________________ Book Stories I thought it would be fun, on
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Here’s something fun just added to the Spill‘s archive: a two record set, released in 1967 by The Listening Library, The World Of James Thurber. I’d never heard of this until last week; I was lucky enough to find a copy online (the album cost about the same as a pound of Maxwell House). As you can see by the
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