Thurber Thursday: “Too Much Stuff About The Man And Woman On The Raft And The Two Beachcombers…”

In my current re-reading of Harrison Kinney’s massive (1,238 pages) Thurber biography, James Thurber: His Life And Times, I came across a short section devoted to Thurber’s opining, in a letter, on several cartoons in a particular issue of The New Yorker.  Each time I had gone over this section in the past I wondered what issue Thurber was talking about.

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Thurber Thursday: The World Of James Thurber

Here’s something fun just added to the Spill‘s archive: a two record set, released in 1967 by The Listening Library, The World Of James Thurber. I’d never heard of this until last week; I was lucky enough to find a copy online (the album cost about the same as a pound of Maxwell House). As you can see by the

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