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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Wandering around Ebay, I came across an unknown (to me) Thurber piece, “I Can’t Make Anything Work” in a magazine, For Men (June 1939). According to Edwin Bowden’s Thurber Bibliography, this was its only appearance (i.e., not collected). Oddly(?), a piece titled, “I Break Everything I Touch” was published in 1941 in another magazine, The Man. That piece is included
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An oddity! Thurber’s drawing on the cover of Sports Illustrated (November 7, 1960) seems to have eluded Edwin Bowden’s essential James Thurber: A Bibliography. It also does not merit a mention in any of my other go-to Thurber books (the biographies and letters books). The one place it is mentioned, and appears, is the fab A Mile and A Half Of Lines:
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