Tuesday Spill: Books Arrived This Month

It’s been a good month for books here at the Spill. The Barbara Shermund title, Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins, started things off with a bang. It’s truly a must-have for any New Yorker cartoon collection. Was pleased to get hold of The New Yorker bound volume, Jan – Feb 1977. I enjoy revisiting these issues

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Thurber Thursday: Listening To Thurber; Audio Of Interest: The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

Listening To Thurber It turns out that listening to Thurber is as hilarious as reading Thurber’s writing or looking at Thurber’s drawings. I say this having spent twenty minutes or so at our everything table you see above listening to my wife (and New Yorker cartoonist colleague), Liza Donnelly read Thurber cartoon captions (“everything table” includes having meals there, birthday

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