As football is so associated with Thanksgiving, what better way to celebrate James Thurber, football, and Thanksgiving than to post this Homecoming program, dated November 21, 1936 cover for Thurber’s Alma mater, Ohio State. Here’s a Thurber-centric snippet from OSU’s The Lantern: Here’s more on Thurber, Ohio State, and Chic Harley (the post includes Thurber’s piece, “When Chic Harley Got
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A Bevy Of Paperbacks Every so often it’s good to take stock, or, in this case, to lay the stock out on the floor and take a look at it. Below, in no particular order, are most, but not all, of the Thurber paperbacks in the Spill library (I just realized I left out two paperback editions of The Last
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I often browse the internet looking at original Thurber drawings (the ones online were usually sold at auction). I noticed, some time back this pair of Thurbers that sold back in 2011: I’ve always wondered where they fit in the Thurber timeline. It wasn’t until this evening, while going through the Michael Rosen Thurber files, that I came across a
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“Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog” — James Thurber ________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest…Barry Blitt From The New Yorker, November 4, 2024, “How The Artist Barry Blitt Turns Politics Into Cartoon Cover Gold” Mr. Blitt has been contributing to The New
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