Thurber Thursday: Thurber’s Favorite Thurber Book (And E.B. White’s Favorite Thurber Book)

Thurber’s Favorite Thurber Book (And E.B. White’s Favorite Thurber Book)      — This account derived from Burton Bernstein’s Thurber: A Biography, and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Hard Times, and Edwin Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography It was September of 1939; Germany had invaded Poland the first day of the month. Thurber and his wife, Helen,  were

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Weekend Spill: NYTs On Barbara Shermund “Overlooked No More”; Ward Sutton’s “Adams Family”; Peter Kuper Is The 2022 Herblock Prize Finalist; Book Review Of Interest: Hilary Campbell’s “Murder Book”; Video Of Interest: A Panel Discusses Booth Doc; The Tilley Watch Online: February 28 – March 4, 2022; Kendra Allenby “Turning Words Into Watercolors”

  The NYTs On Barbara Shermund: “Overlooked No More” Hurray for Barbara Shermund!  The paper of record has finally got around to noting her life and work.  The first Barbara Shermund obit — at least as far as I’ve been able to discover — was the notice, above left, published September 9, 1978. I found it online years ago in

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