As with so much new-to-me New Yorker material, new-to-me James Thurber material keeps popping up. A for instance: His introduction to New Yorker writer Mary Mian’s 1947 novel, My Country-In-Law (the title ever-so-vaguely reminiscent of Gary Shteyngart’s Our Country Friends, published in 2021). I bought a copy of Ms. Mian’s book not knowing how long the Thurber intro would be
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