Music isn’t mentioned too often on this site, but I can’t resist talking, for a moment, about two songs that James Thurber was especially fond of. According to Thurber biographer, Harrison Kinney, “Bye Bye Blackbird” “remained Thurber’s favorite [song] from the day it emerged in in the mid-twenties.”* Another contender: the less well known “Who.” According to Kinney, “Who” is
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Today I point you to Stephen Nadler’s fab site, Attempted Bloggery to see a rare program (provided by Scott Burns) for a production of The Male Animal staged in wartime Paris at The Madeleine Theater. Ohio State roomies (and life-long friends) James Thurber & Elliott Nugent collaborated, post-college, on the comedy, which became a successful Broadway play
Read moreFunny guy, Lars Kenseth is set to Zoom today, talking cartoons with a panel of contributors to Alta Journal of California. To watch (it’s free)…link here! Here’s Lars’ entry on the Spill’s A-Z: Lars Kenseth: New Yorker work: November 14, 2016 –. Lars is a cartoonist whose lumpy people have appeared in The New Yorker, Barron’s and Food And Wine’s
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