Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Birthday: A Basic Library If you’re interested in The New Yorker‘s beginnings, there are a number of books around that make for great reading. Whenever I’m presented with a head-scratcher of a question about the magazine’s infancy, I make the rounds looking for a full picture (in other words, I don’t rely on just one
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Leading Up To Thurber A long-time habit of mine is re-reading (I’m tempted to call it re-studying as well). It began with comic books, and has continued on to this very day. I don’t re-read things I don’t enjoy — I just focus on the good stuff. In the small but excellent library of books devoted to The New Yorker‘s
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Above: Thurber in Life magazine, March 14, 1960 How serendipitous that James Thurber’s birthday falls on Thurber Thursday! The great artist and humorist was born 128 years ago today in Columbus, Ohio. The Thurber House in Columbus is celebrating today with “seasonal music, carols and hot chocolate.” I think of the above books as must-haves for anyone interested in Thurber.
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library For decades a small book (5 1/4″ x 7″), published in 1932, Another Ho Hum: More Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”, has sat on the Spill‘s shelf without its predecessor (published the year before) Ho Hum: Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”. This week (finally!) the 1931 volume has joined its partner. New Yorker history
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