78 Years Ago Today: “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” Broadcast From The Algonquin Roundtable, this audio clip of James Thurber’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, read by Robert Benchley (as part of a 1944 CBS Radio Broadcast series, “This Is My Best”). The audio clip is just 19 minutes — not the full performance. — my thanks
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For the past twenty-seven summers, my wife, Liza Donnelly, and I have gone to the same Downeast home, and over those years, have built a small library of books, some New Yorker-centric (but many having nothing to do with the magazine). Copies of all of The New Yorkery books in Maine are also in the Spill‘s library back home
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Tis A Puzzlement! The Spill‘s good friend, the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent in a scan of a bookplate he found affixed to a copy of Robert Benchley’s Beside Himself. I’m posting it in hope a Spill reader will be able to shed some light on Mary E. Hemenway and her fascinating bookplate. You’ll notice Otto Soglow’s Little King
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Chris Weyant On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast The 50th New Yorker Caption Contest Podcast has been posted with Chris Weyant as the guest. Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, and Vin Coca are the hosts. Hear it here. Chris Weyant began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here. –Clockwise from top left: Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, Chris
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