Saturday Review’s Salute To Thurber I believe that of all the notices following James Thurber’s passing in November 1961, it is E.B. White’s opening sentence in The New Yorker’s Thurber obituary (in the November 11th, ’61 issue) that is most remembered: “I am one of the lucky ones; I knew him before blindness hit him, before fame hit him, and
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Video Of Interest: Emma Allen With Amy Kurzweil “How To Draw Literary Cartoons” is the latest in a series of newyorker.com videos with The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen (above left) speaking with one of the magazine’s cartoonists. This time ’round it’s Amy Kurzweil (above right) who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. _________________________________________________________________ From The Dept
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Back in 1980, I was booted out of my apartment on West 11th Street in Greenwich Village (see my 11th Street downstair’s neighbor, Donald Barthelme’s December 4, 1978 Talk Of The Town piece about the building’s landlord — I’m one-half of trembling “…young cohabiting couple…” he mentions). Needing a break from Manhattan I took up an offer from an illustrator
Read moreA lot of material accumulates when you’ve been researching a subject for fifteen years. In my case, much of it was placed in a ramshackle assortment of black binders pictured here. There was also a binder [not pictured] labeled “Next” that contained a very very long checklist of things that needed looking into. The more I uncovered about Arno,
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