My New Yorker colleague, Roland High, alerted me to a site loaded with video interviews conducted for Adam Van Doren’s 2000 documentary, James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times. These are unedited video interviews of, among others, Frank Modell, John Updike, Lillian Ross, and Roger Angell. All the interviews are Thurber-centric. __________________________________________________________ James Thurber’s A-Z Entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December
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I can’t be in Maine without thinking of the Whites, E.B. and Katharine (and Roger Angell of course). On our yearly long drive up here we pass through Ellsworth, one of the “big towns” close to Brooklin where the White’s saltwater farm is located. Anyone who has read White’s classic collection of essays, One Man’s Meat will come across
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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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Personal History…5 EZ Steps To The New Yorker When I moved to Manhattan in 1977, the idea was that being close to The New Yorker’s offices might somehow help me (my work) get into The New Yorker. After getting over the jitters about actually going into the offices, I took that first big step and learned that going in didn’t
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