As I continue my revisit through Harrison Kinney’s massive biography of James Thurber, I continue to find moments I overlooked the first time I read it. A for instance: On page 853, Mr. Kinney quotes E.B. White’s review of The Thurber Carnival in PM (the issue of January 4, 1945): “The book contains the picture of the woman speaking into
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Thurber Karneval! It almost never fails that when I go looking for something “new” James Thurber-wise on the internet, I find it. This Czechoslovakian edition of The Thurber Carnival, out in 2000, is not new, pub date-wise, but new to me (it’s new-ish relative to the pub date of the first edition Thurber Carnival in 1945, shown below the 2000
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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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My Desert Island Book There is one title among all the Thurber books in the Spill‘s library (I’m almost certain that the Spill’s Thurber collection is complete) that I’d want with me when the day comes I’m stranded on a desert island:The Thurber Carnival. For me, it’s stood the test of time like no other book. By “stood the test
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