Saturday Review’s Salute To Thurber I believe that of all the notices following James Thurber’s passing in November 1961, it is E.B. White’s opening sentence in The New Yorker’s Thurber obituary (in the November 11th, ’61 issue) that is most remembered: “I am one of the lucky ones; I knew him before blindness hit him, before fame hit him, and
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Closing in on the end of a seemingly long double-issue two weeks — a new issue will come out next Monday — I thought it would be fun to try out a new addition to the Spill: First & Last. It’s been an interest of mine, when thinking about certain New Yorker artists, to automatically look into what their first
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— Photo courtesy of Anne Hall Elser Sad news has come this way via Mike Lynch that the great cartoonist Bill Woodman passed away on Saturday. Between 1975 and 2003, Mr. Woodman published one hundred and
Read moreI love being surprised on my daily jaunts through Ebay. The below, Love Is A Funny Business, is an example of one such surprise. Hitherto unseen (by me), it features interesting cover art and is credited to “The Kings Of Hilarity.” The Kings are big names: Frank Sullivan, E.B. White, Arthur Kober, and of course, the fellow celebrated here every
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