Audio Of Interest: About Thurber’s 125th Anniversary Exhibit, Books Michael Rosen (shown above), the fellow key to the festivities surrounding the 125th anniversary of Thurber’s birth, talks to Thurber’s hometown newspaper’s “Newsroom” about the events tied-in to the anniversary. Hear it here. And here’s a calendar of Thurber events __________________________________________ A Bonus Daily Cartoon & Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
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Rewind Wednesday: Thurber On The Cover Of Newsweek
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
Read moreBook 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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