Where Is Dr. Millmoss? I was looking through the very first New Yorker “Cartoon Issue” this morning (the issue dated December 15, 1997), rereading Roger Angell’s terrif piece, “Congratulations! It’s A Baby” (p.132) in which he wrote: “After I went to boarding school, he [James Thurber] gave me a great interview for the school paper, along with the original of
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A Meta New Yorker Cartoon By Warren Miller Yesterday, taking a break from drawing, I began poking through a stack of New Yorkers from the late 1960s. An Andre Francois cover on the issue of July 26, 1969 grabbed my attention. I’ve always loved Mr. Francois’s cover work (it’s possible I’m especially fond of it because he had the cover
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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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