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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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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Collecting Himself: In the pre-personal computer days, I used to carry around a “Want List” — pages and pages of New Yorker-related book titles and magazines that I’d found listed in bibliographies. The Want List was sort of like a shopping list you’d bring to the grocery store. The difference is that most of what I was looking for in
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Michael Rosen, who knows his Thurber, recently mentioned this 1960 unaired* television pilot to me. Love the dogs in “Thurber’s” studio. Link to “The Secret Life Of James Thurber” here. *Possibly aired? Thurber’s wikipedia entry states: In 1961, “The Secret Life of James Thurber” aired on The DuPont Show with June Allyson. Adolphe Menjou appeared in the program as Fitch, and Orson Bean and Sue Randall portrayed
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