Leading Up To Thurber A long-time habit of mine is re-reading (I’m tempted to call it re-studying as well). It began with comic books, and has continued on to this very day. I don’t re-read things I don’t enjoy — I just focus on the good stuff. In the small but excellent library of books devoted to The New Yorker‘s
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E.B White and James Thurber — the names go together like soup and sandwich, or, um…horse and carriage. New Yorker history buffs will recall that Thurber’s first book, Is Sex Necessary, was co-authored with E.B. White, and that the two shared an office at The New Yorker in their earliest years at the magazine. It was White who fished a
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A 1937 New Yorker Bound Volume With Tilley’s Farewell Occasionally I’ll buy a New Yorker bound volume even though some of the issues within the volume are already in the Spill library. The idea of sitting with a book has always been more enjoyable (for me) than with a single issue. Both are fun and
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library For decades a small book (5 1/4″ x 7″), published in 1932, Another Ho Hum: More Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”, has sat on the Spill‘s shelf without its predecessor (published the year before) Ho Hum: Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”. This week (finally!) the 1931 volume has joined its partner. New Yorker history
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