Thurber Thursday: “One of The Absolutely Essential Books Of Our Time”…The Saturday Review On “The Thurber Carnival”:

Just when I thought I’d seen every Thurber cover story, along came the issue of The  Saturday Review shown here:  Within the issue is a great review (shown below) of The Thurber Carnival by William Rose Benet, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and the fellow who founded The Saturday Review (the Thurber portrait on the cover is a wood engraving by

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P.C. Vey Talks about Walking a Cat on a Leash, The Spatial Dynamics of Cubicles, Meeting Ziegler, Stevens and Mankoff, and a Bunch of Other Stuff

                The world of P.C. Vey (the “C” is for Christopher) was introduced to The New Yorker’s readership November 22, 1993 with the publication of the drawing below:             The drawing set the stage for what was to come.  Vey people, either male or female seem flounder-ish.His people are

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