As football is so associated with Thanksgiving, what better way to celebrate James Thurber, football, and Thanksgiving than to post this Homecoming program, dated November 21, 1936 cover for Thurber’s Alma mater, Ohio State. Here’s a Thurber-centric snippet from OSU’s The Lantern: Here’s more on Thurber, Ohio State, and Chic Harley (the post includes Thurber’s piece, “When Chic Harley Got
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Edward Koren Exhibit At Ohio State University Text from the website: This retrospective of Koren’s New Yorker work spans his entire career, beginning with his very early cartoons and first contributions to the magazine in the 1960s, and also includes a small fraction of the thousands of preliminary sketches that he regularly submitted. Link here for more on the exhibit. Edward
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Here’s a short film and article I missed: from the Ohio State University Alumni Magazine, Summer 2019, “James Thurber At 125” …and one more post missed: from Literary Hub, August 2019, “Dorothy Parker On Her Old Pal James Thurber” (a reprint of Ms. Parker’s wonderful introduction to Thurber’s 1932 collection The Seal In The Bedroom with some fun pieces from
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