From Japan: The Dog Department The other day I ran across this interesting cover for the Japanese edition of Thurber’s The Dog Department. I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough Thurber dog drawings; this cover doesn’t disappoint. The book, edited by the fab Michael Rosen, was originally published in the US in 2001 (the US cover
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Thurber Thursday: He Drew His Humor
From Michael Rosen’s Thurber files, this quote from what I believe to be a Book Of The Month Club newsletter article by Wolcott Gibbs. Here’s Gibbs talking about Thurber transitioning from a managing editor position at The New Yorker to a Talk of the Town rewrite editor: “I think in the end Thurber fired himself as an editor…and began to
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Thurber Thursday: “Dogs Have Always Been Good To Me…”
While going through the voluminous Michael Rosen Thurber files, I ran across this wonderful Thurber quote: “Dogs have always taken care of me…so I try to be good to them.”* It inspired today’s Thurber dog miscellany. Enjoy! *From The Columbus Sunday Dispatch Magazine, November 23, 1952, “Thurber At Home” (by Ernest Dickinson and Harry Griggs, Jr.)
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Thurber Thursday: Latest Addition To The Spill Archives…A Tower Of Thurber Files
Latest Addition To The Spill Archive: A Tower Of Thurber Files Yesterday’s Spill mentioned a stack of Cartoonist PROfiles donated to the archives. This week also brought several boxes containing several pounds of research files on James Thurber from another Spill booster, the fab Michael Rosen, editor of A Mile And A Half Of Lines: The Art of James Thurber
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