Newsweek’s Thurber Cover Story In July of 1951, TIME put Thurber on its cover — it’s the cover most Thurber biographies mention. Newsweek’s Thurber cover, out six years later, is rarely mentioned. Thinking about it this morning, I dug out the sole bound volume of Newsweek in the Spill‘s library (acquired, obviously, because it contains
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Book On The Horizon…”A Mile And A Half Of Lines: The Art Of James Thurber”; Video Of Interest: Liza Donnelly; Audio Of Interest: Roz Chast; Audio Of Interest: Bob Eckstein: Chris Ware In School; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Farley Katz
Coming this July from Ohio State University Press, A Mile And A Half of Lines: The Art Of James Thurber. Edited by Michael Rosen, with contributions from Rosemary Thurber, Liza Donnelly, Seymour Chwast, Ian Frazier, and yours truly. From the publisher: Humorist, cartoonist, writer, playwright. James Thurber was to the twentieth century what Mark Twain was to the nineteenth. At
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