More Thurber From Stage Magazine What you’re seeing are James Thurber’s illustrations for his December 1936 Stage Magazine review of Noel Coward’s “Tonight At 8:30.” (cover below by Abe Birnbaum)* Harrison Kinney, in his massive and terrific Thurber biography, James Thurber: His Life And Times (Henry Holt, 1995), tells us this brief story about Thurber driving to Boston to see
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Comparing The 2023 Thurber New Yorker Cover & The 1936 New Yorker Cover The recent big Thurber news was of course the republication of The New Yorker Thurber cover from February 29, 1936, for the The New Yorker issue of September 4, 2023. I thought it would be fun to place an original 1936 issue side-by-side with a 2023
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: A Thurber blast from the past (link here for a brief interview with Thurber’s granddaughter, Sara Sauers). The Cartoonists and Cartoons: This is a semi-archival issue, republishing pieces (Joseph Mitchell, Susan Orlean, Vladimir Nabokov, etc.) from the magazine’s
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