Twenty years ago(!) I contributed the below piece “Bad Batch” to the month long perch I occupied on newyorker.com (you can see all the pieces from that month if you go to Posted Notes on this site and scroll down a ways). This morning, while looking for a folder unrelated to bad batches, or any other kinds of batches, I
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If you happen to in Columbus, Ohio, pencil in this must-see site: The Thurber House. I’ve been there twice, along with my New Yorker colleague, Liza Donnelly. Here’s a short, succinct video tour. Link here to the Thurber House website. Thurber’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker
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Personal History: Using A Sondheim Song Title I don’t have a good sense of where most of my drawings come from. Mostly, they just show up, and I put ’em down on cheap paper. The above drawing does have a small bit of a past — at least the caption does. My mother was a fan of Frank Sinatra. While
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According to Harper’s, “The Future, If Any, Of Comedy… or, where do we non-go from here” published in its December 1961 issue is “believed to be the last piece Mr. Thurber wrote.” As you see in the scan below, it first appeared in London, in The Times Literary Supplement. It appeared on US newsstands via Harper’s the month Thurber
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