If you live in or near Columbus, Ohio (where James Thurber was born waaaay back in 1894), you can honor him this coming Saturday while helping out Thurber House by attending a fundraiser. All the info here. About the fundraiser from The Columbus Dispatch (where Thurber worked before heading off to the bright lights and big city): “The event will
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Latest Addition to The Thurber Library The second German title this week! An Arno collection was mentioned here on Tuesday. I won’t be acquiring every single foreign Thurber title I come across, but as this one’s theme is dogs, I couldn’t resist (I couldn’t resist the cover graphics either). It’s a 1958 paperback edition of Thurber’s Dogs, originally published in
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James Thurber’s Blue Plate Specials The other day I received an email about several blue plates featuring drawings by James Thurber. I’d never seen anything like them before. I guessed they might be homemade due to the choice of
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It was a week ago today I set off to Columbus, Ohio with my New Yorker cartoonist colleague and wife, Liza Donnelly. We headed west to be on hand for the presentation (to Roz Chast) of very first Thurber Prize For American Humor in Cartoon Art. Our previous visits to Columbus had all been via plane — this time, we
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