Thurber’s Dogs Set to Music Attempted Bloggery has posted this curio: Thurber’s Dogs set to the music of Peter Schickele. Until yesterday, I’d never heard of this. It’s not the first time Thurber’s work has crossed over from print to music. In one of the many high points of Thurber’s career, his best-seller, The Thurber Carnival was transformed into a
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John Lennon: “I was about 15 when I started Thurberizing the drawings.”
Back in December of 2013 Ink Spill ran a piece, “John Lennon & James Thurber: A Sunnier Connection.” To celebrate John Lennon’s birthday, I’m re-posting that piece, albeit in slightly edited form. Anyone familiar with John Lennon’s and James Thurber’s drawings can’t help but see some cross-pollination from Thurber to Lennon. Lennon’s drawings, published in 1964’s In His Own
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The Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition of James Thurber’s The Thurber Carnival (originally published in 1945) will be out November 19, a little over a month before the new film version of Thurber’s short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is released on Christmas day. The story was originally published in The New Yorker, March 18, 1939.
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