Personal History: Thurber’s The Years With Ross Up in Maine, briefly, as summer ends, I wandered this morning over to a row of books in the cabin we’re in and was surprised to see a paperback copy of James Thurber’s The Years With Ross. I didn’t
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New Yorker Cartoon Department News We learned yesterday, in an email to cartoonist contributors, that Rachel Perlman has joined the New Yorker staff as Assistant Cartoon Editor. She joins Colin Stokes, who is the Associate Cartoon Editor, and Emma Allen, the Cartoon Editor. Ms. Perlman had previously worked free-lance for the magazine. I believe that this is the first time,
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James Thurber’s The Years With Ross, originally published in 1959 by Little Brown & Co. (and in the UK by Hamish Hamilton), is an example of a Thurber title that has stayed with us over time, with various adjustments to the cover art. I thought it would be fun to show all the various covers I could track down. Many
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